- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
- Blitz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020