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It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.
— Albert Brooks
I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know.
— Arnold Bennett
Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.
— Alasdair Gray
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
— Alasdair Gray
This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?
— Curtis Armstrong
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
— Alasdair Gray
She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
— Alasdair Gray
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
— Alasdair Gray
The apocalypse is not around the corner.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
— Alasdair Gray
Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly.
— Alasdair Gray
Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
— Alasdair Gray
I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.
— Alasdair Gray
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.
— Alasdair Gray
The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.
— Alasdair Gray
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me.""That's typical of life, isn't it? — Alasdair Gray
People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people
— Alasdair Gray
Tell me, Dr. Lanark, is there a connection between your love of vast panorama and your distate for human problems?
— Alasdair Gray
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
— Suzanne Curchod
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
— Alasdair Gray
You lose your manners when you're poor.
— Lillian Hellman
She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.
— Alasdair Gray
