Arthur Smith Quotes

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.

~ Arthur Smith

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A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

~ Arthur Smith

Admiring Each Else Entertaining Little More Much Reader Review Savage Someone Than Us

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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?

~ Arthur Smith

About Every Exactly Four Friend Got Like Looks Me Say Says Someone Who Years You

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Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

~ Arthur Smith

Acting Evening Like Office Play Shift Stage Stage Play Working

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After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

~ Arthur Smith

After Atmosphere Contents Image Memory Novel Odd Only Phrase Read Remember Retain Vague Vivid You

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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

~ Arthur Smith

Artist Becomes Canvas Glamorous Masterpiece Uninspiring

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Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

~ Arthur Smith

Ages Been Comedy Commandments Extent Hilarious Know May One-Liners Originally Quicker Than Tragedy

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Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

~ Arthur Smith

Across Backwards Better Book Delusions Excellent Far My Own Own Quixote Read Than Travel Walking

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Every generation of children has its private hero.

~ Arthur Smith

Children Every Generation Hero Private

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Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff.

~ Arthur Smith

Bored Bought Give Give Me Heard Loved Me New New Stuff New Thing Now Old Old Thing Seen Slept Stuff Thing Want

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Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

~ Arthur Smith

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I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

~ Arthur Smith

Abhor Know More Nothing Someone Than Tube

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I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

~ Arthur Smith

Age Am Face I Am Itself Slowly Writing

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I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

~ Arthur Smith

Am Creating Fiction Hours How Hundreds Impressed Lonely Long Many Meet Miserable Myself Novels Pastime Spend Very Writers

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I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

~ Arthur Smith

Crime Details Panic Paranoia Punishment Read Recall Retain Sense Strong Strong Sense Years Years Ago

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I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

~ Arthur Smith

Broke Downstairs Falling Half I See Large Like Nose Now Resembles See Six

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I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

~ Arthur Smith

Always Guy Kind Raining Which Will

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I've always been interested in art.

~ Arthur Smith

Always Art Been Interested

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I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

~ Arthur Smith

Associate Been British Come Countryside Decades Four Hills Nearly Now Painters Pampered Passion Poets Rather Than

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I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

~ Arthur Smith

Anyway Doing Going Here Involve Latin Me More Noticed Positive Provincial Public Public School Resolutions School Something Stuff Teacher

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