The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was … - J. G. Farrell

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People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

J. G. Farrell

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

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The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.

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Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

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A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!

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But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

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