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Drew Byrne

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Non-Profit
Occupation	Professional procrastinator & proofreader
Location	Middle Thames Valley, United Kingdom
Introduction	Basically, I am someone interested in quotations, those mainly being of an aphoristic form; consequently, I have collected many examples together over the years, ones which I most liked, warmed to, or appreciated. Although most of these I cannot really now recall without looking them up, and so I supppose are not of much use except as written ornaments to an inefficient memory, but so it goes. I am interested in archaeology, history, and antiques, although not as much as I once was. Philosophy, also, has interested me from time to time, although I never learned much about it. It has been said (although certainly not by me) that “in time, most men become philosophers, although not particularly good ones.” I can say without much hesitation that that I am one of these fellows.
Interests	Thinking too much about nothing particularly of relevance, collecting brief and pithy quotations with a philosophical twist, Watching television, beer drinking, grumpiness, British films, antiques, reading books, British archaeology, day dreaming, humour, humorists, satire, sardonic wit, cynicism, graveyards, one-upmanship, sophistry, weakness, purpose, laziness, prudence, sarcasm, obfuscation, aphorisms, witticisms, wisdom literature, well being, pondering, scribbling notes, procrastination, self-defence, creative writing, catch phrases, proverbs, sayings, ethics, people watching, taboos, walking, exercise, contemplation, contention, laughter, waiting, observation, scepticism, beliefs, competition, memories, regret, apophthegms, time-wasting, lifestyles
Favorite Movies	Way Out West, A Chump at Oxford, The Great Dictator, Top Hat, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Cool Hand Luke, Yojimbo, Genevieve, School For Scoundrels, Vertigo, Rear Window, High Noon, The Lavender Hill Mob, Carry on Camping, How to Murder Your Wife, A Man for All Seasons, The IPCRESS File, Carry On Constable, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Hobson’s Choice, The Third Man, Road to Bali, Roman Holiday, High Sierra, Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s, Blackmail, Metropolis, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Arsenic and Old Lace, Carry On Cabby, Carry On at Your Convenience, The Offence, The Severn Samurai, The Yakuza, Dirty Harry, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella, Goldfinger, Le Samouraï, Zulu, The Damn Busters, The Railway Children, S.W.A.L.K., My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, It’s a Wonderful Life, Harvey, The 300 Spartans, Tension at Table Rock, Passport to Pimlico, High Noon, Lost Horizon, Psycho, The Wizard of Oz, Forbidden Planet, A Matter of Life and Death, A Canterbury Tale, Dial M for Murder, Ice Cold In Alex, Above Us the Waves, Bad Day at Black Rock, Deliverance, The Exorcist III, Airplane!, Grease, 1984, The Warriors, Unforgiven, Amélie, Star Trek, Mars Attacks, Things to Do in Denver when You’re Dead, Hannibal, The Usual Suspects, Memphis Belle, Alien, Blade Runner, Clockwise, Full Metal Jacket, Matrix Revolutions, Godzilla, Casino Royale
Favorite Music	Vangellis, Blondie, The Animals, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Brian Ferry, Rick Wakeman, The Cure, The Eagles, Eurythmics, Beethoven, The Beatles, The Stranglers, David Bowie, T. Rex, Thin Lizzy, Gary Newman, Boney M, The Sex Pistols, ABBA, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, ELO, Jean Michel Jarre, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Talking Heads, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd
Favorite Books	Great Expectations, The Wind in the Willows, The Plague, The Left Hand of Darkness, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Sun Also Rises, Animal Farm, The Caves of Steel, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Tao Te Ching, Hávamál, The Art of War, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Lord Of The Rings, Pride and Prejudice, In a Glass Darkly, Candide, Beowulf, The Prince, Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, The Statesman, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám, The History of Mr. Polly, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Silmarillion, Pygmalion, Dracula, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Frankenstein, Goodbye to All That, Sense and Sensibility, Oliver Twist, Watership Down, The Hobbit, Dhalgren, The Invisible Man, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Wuthering Heights, The Silence of the Lambs, The Old Man and the Sea, Lord of the Flies, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Victim, Heart of Darkness, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dialogue With Death, Catch-22, The Cruel Sea, Mrs Dalloway, Starship Troopers, Brave New World, The Grapes of Wrath, The Magus, Kiss Kiss, Conan of Cimmeria, The Twelve Caesars, A Study in Scarlet, Three Men in a Boat, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Diary of a Nobody, The Way To Minack