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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#arts #british #council #give #how

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#asleep #cheap #come #dream #dreams

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#brutish #form #genius #goes #great

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#every #every night #had #how #i

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#marvelous #reality #rich #want #why

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure. ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#cry #depressed #feel #good #good movies

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#blood #civilization #differences #human #letting

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ↗

— George Chapman

#carry #clock #dictionary #earth #mere

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#accept #death #find #go #i