I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God … - Dick Francis

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But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

Dick Francis

I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else. . . (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me

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Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

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I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

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Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

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Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

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