A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. Oliver Goldsmith
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't. Suzanne Fields
A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Bloxam, who had slept off the remains of his beer on the previous night at Corcoran's, had left for his work at Poplar at five o'clock that morning.
A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr.Bloxam, who had slept off the remains of his beer on the previous night at Corcoran's, had left for his work at Poplar at five o'clock that morning.
