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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.

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If you must commit suicide – and there is no knowing to what people may be brought – always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

George Borrow

George Borrow
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Born: July 5, 1803
Died: July 26, 1881 (aged 78)
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