Robin Skelton Quotes

• Never believe what you cannot doubt.

  Robin Skelton

  Believe, Doubt

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

  Robin Skelton

  Skills

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• It is the distance between us that creates language.

  Robin Skelton

  Distance, Philosophical, Language

  Robin Skelton (1995). “Or So I Say: Contentions & Confessions : a Happenstance Book”, p.65, Ekstasis Editions

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• Death is the only mystery we all solve.

  Robin Skelton

  Mystery, Solve

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

  Robin Skelton

  Dream, Bed, Found

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• I have no history but the length of my bones.

  Robin Skelton

  History, Bones, Length

  Robin Skelton (1971). “The hunting dark”, McClelland and Stewart

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• A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

  Robin Skelton

  Vices, Virtue, Pleasure

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• Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

  Robin Skelton

  Cuffs, Firsts, Said

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• Men who like women rarely fall in love.

  Robin Skelton

  Falling In Love, Fall, Men

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• Procrustes was an editor.

  Robin Skelton

  Editors

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

  Robin Skelton

  Habit, Revelations, Loses

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• Some part of us still believes that men should kill.

  Robin Skelton

  Believe, Men, Should

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• Headlines pass; breadlines continue.

  Robin Skelton

  Headlines

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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• Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

  Robin Skelton

  Bows

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

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