One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog". The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else. - Michael Frayn
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
- Michael Frayn
I feel bad that I don't feel worse. - Michael Frayn
I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valuel… - Michael Frayn
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valuel…
You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck. - Michael Frayn
You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now. - Michael Frayn
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes. - Michael Frayn
No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, wh… - Michael Frayn
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, wh…
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to … - Michael Frayn
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to …
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally … - Michael Frayn
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally …
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