Michael Korda
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them — he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton — and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
More quotes and aphorisms
Persuasion is often more effectual...We are all born brave, trusting and greedy...The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is...The crest and crowning of all good...In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful...I intend to live forever. So far, so good...
