Arthur Smith

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  • “Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.” -Arthur Smith

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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

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  • “The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I’ve often found myself following in their footsteps – although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.” -Arthur Smith

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  • “The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.” -Arthur Smith

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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

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  • “Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.” -Arthur Smith

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  • “The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.” -Arthur Smith

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  • “The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.” -Arthur Smith

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  • “It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.” -Arthur Smith

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  • “Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.” -Arthur Smith

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  • It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. – Arthur Smith

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