As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming … - P. G. Wodehouse - Quotesmemo.com

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The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death. . . but is, like God, always present.

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P. G. Wodehouse

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

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I always advise people never to give advice.

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Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

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I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

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Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

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