James Hilton
James Hilton
James Hiltonwas an English novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 September 1900
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stupid laziness virtue
Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
running war believe
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
heart rights people
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
believe too-much governing
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
two clouds lasts
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!
giving stories remarkable
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
passion exhaustion
The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
believe attractive evidence
When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.
ideas choices important
Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?
memories fun sleep
What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.
moving book years
When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.