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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘<strong>The</strong> Yeoman <strong>of</strong> the Guard’ (1888) act 2<br />

7.45 Eric Gill 1882-1940<br />

That state is a state <strong>of</strong> slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in<br />

his working time that which is required <strong>of</strong> him.<br />

‘Art-nonsense and Other Essays’ (1929) ‘Slavery and Freedom’.<br />

7.46 Terry Gilliam 1940—<br />

See Graham Chapman et al. (3.74)<br />

7.47 Allen Ginsberg 1926—<br />

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?<br />

Life would ring the bells <strong>of</strong> Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.<br />

‘Graffiti’ (1972).<br />

I saw the best minds <strong>of</strong> my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,<br />

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded<br />

hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery <strong>of</strong> the<br />

night.<br />

‘Howl’ (1956) p. 9<br />

7.48 George Gipp d. 1920<br />

Win just one for the Gipper.<br />

Catch-phrase associated with Ronald Reagan, who uttered the immortal words in the 1940 film ‘Knute<br />

Rockne, All American’. Knut Rockne ‘Gipp the Great’ in ‘Collier’s’ 22 November 1930<br />

7.49 Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944<br />

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most<br />

effective drum.<br />

‘La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu’ (1935; translated as ‘Tiger at the Gates’ by Christopher Fry, 1955) act 1<br />

Nous savons tous ici que le droit est la plus puissante des ècoles de l’imagination. Jamais poéte<br />

n’a interprètè la nature aussi librement qu’un juriste la rèalitè.<br />

We all know here that the law is the most powerful <strong>of</strong> schools for the imagination. No poet<br />

ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.<br />

‘La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu’ (1935; translated as ‘Tiger at the Gates’ by Christopher Fry, 1955) act 2,<br />

sc. 5<br />

7.50 W. E. Gladstone 1809-98<br />

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.<br />

Speech on the Reform Bill, 1866<br />

[<strong>The</strong> Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have<br />

desolated and pr<strong>of</strong>aned.

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