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Michael Frayn Quotes: You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.
         

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.


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I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.



We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.



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You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.



It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.



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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.



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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.



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To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.



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If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.



..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.





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