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We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.


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JEFFREY FRY Art is significant deformity.
ROGER FRY Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
CHRISTOPHER FRY I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
MARTIN FRY The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
JEFFREY FRY Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But tr...
JEFFREY FRY Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its win...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian
ROGER FRY I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Aust...
LUCY FRY I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone
ELIZABETH FRY I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been de...
ELIZABETH FRY It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that ...
ELIZABETH FRY When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off.
JEFFREY FRY He looked like a midget standing next to it.
KEVIN FRY Eight of the teams believe one interpretation and Ferrari have a slightly different interpretation.
NICK FRY 'Take Back the Night' isn't just about domestic violence, 'Take Back the Night' is also about being ...
ELIZABETH FRY