TuesdayMar 17, 2026
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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
I do not think necessity is the mother of invention invention, in my opinion, arise directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
'I think you're begging the question,' said Haydock, 'and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!'
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours I found it quite enthralling.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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