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- Jack London: American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney)
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
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An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015) -
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
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I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
Source: Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010 -
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
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In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
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It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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