Quotes from Clifford Thurlow

The one thing the English can't stand is someone getting above themselves.

A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.

Traditions have got a lot to answer for. They lose their meaning and we cling on to something that does more harm than good.

Words know that there is always the right word and no other word will do.

The right word at the right time stops wars, cures heartaches, mends bridges, sweeps away barriers. The wrong word is the dropped match that lights a forest fire. 

Words are forceful but fair, flexible, yet solid, strong, dependable. Words are multi-cultural, without prejudice. They believe in freedom, equality, equanimity. If a word were a man he'd be a man of his word.

In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.

Money attracts money like a magnet. It doesn't trickle down. It is sucked up.

The secret of success isn't knowing what you want, it is knowing what you don't want.

Those who live in fear of failure slowly but inevitably fail.

If we are one world then the only patriotism can be for the world.

Wars are remembered when those who were there would rather forget.

When trees are treated as a commodity, cutting them down is good for business. When people are a commodity, enslaving them, exploiting them and underpaying them is good for business. When everything is a commodity, the landscape grows barren, and the earth turns to dust.

It is a fool who believes politicians will end the problems and poverty they have created in the first place. 

The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.

Porn is like sex without orgasm, compulsive without being satisfying.

Lies corrode like rust.

We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.

Unless you must write a book, you mustn't.

If you pile lie upon lie the pile gets so high the truth is obscured.

Liars are the acid that eats at the foundations of public life and democracy.

Liars are chameleons that take on any colour.

Everything that ever was always will be and is always present to discover if you have the will to look beyond surface appearances.

Time is like an aeroplane after take off. It is always moving and only goes in one direction.