John Scott Quotes

• Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

  John Scott

  Appreciate, Done, Crosses

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• I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

  John Scott

  Doubt, Misery, Decided

  "The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence". Book by Horace Twiss, 1844.

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• Parece que somos capaces de un inmenso amor y lealtad, y tan capaces de engaño y atrocidad. Probablemente sea esta sorprendente ambivalencia lo que nos hace únicos.

  John Scott

  Loyalty, Unique, Hype

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• In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

  John Scott

  Book, Mirrors, Issues

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• It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

  John Scott

  Doors, Ideas, Next

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• People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

  John Scott

  Teenager, Responsibility, People

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• The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

  John Scott

  Style, Stories, Use

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• The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

  John Scott

  Fate, Reviews, Bookshops

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• My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

  John Scott

  People, Soul, Doubt

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• When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

  John Scott

  Serious, Funding, Commit

  "Korchemny in plea bargain" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2005.

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• You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

  John Scott

  Golf, Snow, Balls

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• We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

  John Scott

  Ocean, Trying, Tourism

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• I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

  John Scott

  Dream, Real, Hands

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• It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

  John Scott

  Home, Thinking, Issues

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• I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

  John Scott

  Book, Different, Density

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• Tengo un montón de novelas pendientes en las que me encantaría trabajar y en las que trabajaría si no tuviera que mantener un trabajo a tiempo completo.

  John Scott

  Jobs, Would Be, Novel

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• If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

  John Scott

  Thinking, Luxury, Novel

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• These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

  John Scott

  Church, Moral, Decline

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• The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

  John Scott

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Ethics

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