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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Is incontestable. It undercuts<br />

<strong>The</strong> problematical world and sells us life<br />

At a discount.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Lady’s not for Burning’ (1949) act 1<br />

Where in this small-talking world can I find<br />

A longitude with no platitude?<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Lady’s not for Burning’ (1949) act 3<br />

<strong>The</strong> best<br />

Thing we can do is to make wherever we’re lost in<br />

Look as much like home as we can.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Lady’s not for Burning’ (1949) act 3<br />

I hope<br />

I’ve done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat,<br />

A spade is never so merely a spade as the word<br />

Spade would imply.<br />

‘Venus Observed’ (1950) act 2, sc. 1<br />

6.92 Roger Fry 1866-1934<br />

Art is significant deformity.<br />

In Virginia Woolf ‘Roger Fry’ (1940) ch. 8<br />

6.93 R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983<br />

Either war is obsolete or men are.<br />

In ‘New Yorker’ 8 January 1966, p. 93<br />

God, to me, it seems,<br />

is a verb<br />

not a noun,<br />

proper or improper.<br />

‘No More Secondhand God’ (1963) p. 28, poem written in 1940.<br />

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no<br />

instruction book came with it.<br />

‘Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’ (1969) ch. 4<br />

6.94 Sam Fuller<br />

When you’re in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.<br />

In ‘Guardian’ 26 February 1991<br />

6.95 Thomas Fuller 1608-61<br />

But our captain counts the Image <strong>of</strong> God nevertheless his image, cut in ebony as if done in<br />

ivory.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Holy State and the Pr<strong>of</strong>ane State’ (1642) bk. 2 ‘<strong>The</strong> Good Sea-Captain’

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