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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
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Tim White
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
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If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.
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Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal you had a duty towards it.
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
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Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
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The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
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