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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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It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
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The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.
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There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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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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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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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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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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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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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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It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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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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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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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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I think I ought to have some eddication,said the Wart, I can't think of anything to do.
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Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
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