Dick Francis Quotes
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“I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.”
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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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“The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.”
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One should never assume anything
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To be logical you have to dig up and face your own hidden motives and emotions, and of course they're hidden principally because you don't want to face them.
So ... um ... it's easier to let your basement feelings run the upper storeys, so to speak, and the result is quarrels, love, opinions, anorexia, philanthropy ... almost anything you can think of. I just like to know what's going on down there, to pick out why I truly want to do things, that's all. Then I can do them, or not. Whichever.
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He gave me a last dark look, not admitting defeat,not giving an inch .I watched him with unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes and they were simply open but seeing nothing.
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People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.
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If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.
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Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead.
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“Ones. I could see that I would be inevitably eased out, and not by doubt but by concern.”
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“Newspapers, I said. I unrolled the Quindle Diary so”
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“I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.”
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“A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.”
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THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.
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“Emotion is a rotten base for politics.”
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Good manners are a sign of strength.
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“Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool ... let the mind drift to the vision.”
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Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
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