There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right … - Hugh Leonard

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I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?

Hugh Leonard

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

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We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

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My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

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A thing well done is worth doing.

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Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

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Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

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Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known. She'd been handed her diploma. There were no more surprises - or only this last surprise, that there were no more surprises. To torture herself, Irina kept looking, and looking, at Lawrence's face, like turning the key in an ignition several times before resigning herself that the battery was dead.

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