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When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.
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We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
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Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
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It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
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The austere serenity of Shangri-La. Its forsaken courts and pale pavilions shimmered in repose from which all the fret of existence had ebbed away, leaving a hush as if moments hardly dared to pass.
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
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The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!
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If I were to put it into a very few words, my dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all lands—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.
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People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
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Nothing really wrong with him—only anno domini, but that's the most fatal complaint of all, in the end.
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Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?
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There came a time, he realized, when the strangeness of everything made it increasingly difficult to realize the strangeness of anything.
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There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.
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When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.
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You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.
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Born:
September 9, 1900
Died:
December 20, 1954
(aged 54)
Bio:
James Hilton was an English novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays.
Known for:
Lost Horizon (1933)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934)
Random Harvest (1941)
Murder at School (1931)
So Well Remembered (1945)
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