The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (266 page)

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Leary, Timothy
1920–96
1
If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out.

lecture, June 1966, in
The Politics of Ecstasy
(1968) ch. 21

2
The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

remark made in the early 1990s; in
Guardian
1 June 1996

3
Why not? Why not? Why not? Yeah.

last words; in
Independent
1 June 1996

Lease, Mary Elizabeth
1853–1933
1
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

E. J. James et al.
Notable American Women 1607–1950
(1971) vol. 2

Leavis, F. R.
1895–1978
1
The common pursuit.

title of book (1952)

2
The few really great—the major novelists…are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

The Great Tradition
(1948) ch. 1

3
Self-contempt, well-grounded.
on the foundation of T. S. Eliot's work

in
Times Literary Supplement
21 October 1988 (quoted by Christopher Ricks in a BBC radio talk).

Lebowitz, Fran
1946–
1
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.

Metropolitan Life
(1978)

2
The best fame is a writer's fame: it's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat.

in
Observer
30 May 1993 "Sayings of the Week"

Lec, Stanislaw
1909–66
1
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Unkempt Thoughts
(1962)

le Carré, John
1931–
1
The spy who came in from the cold.

title of novel (1963)

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