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George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman.

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Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

General, Ideas, Intervals, Order, Took, Years

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

Ignorance, Political, Refusal, Two

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

Answers, Prayer, Thinking, Times, Torment

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

Complete, Knows, Point, Statesmanship, Treachery

I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen. . . go wrong

Keep, Lessons, Men, Parson, Religious, Sake

If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.

Crossed, Making Love, Mind, Position, Shade, Ways

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

British, Cheyenne, Dog, Texas, Things, Yankees

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