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If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.
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First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and the love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity or the pain.
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Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.
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There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
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But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.
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It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
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If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Angela Thirkell
Born:
January 30, 1890
Died:
January 29, 1961
(aged 70)
Bio:
Angela Margaret Thirkell, was an English and Australian novelist. She also published one novel, Trooper to Southern Cross, under the pseudonym Leslie Parker.
Known for:
High Rising (1933)
August Folly (1936)
Pomfret Towers (1938)
Cheerfulness Breaks in (1940)
The Brandons (1939)
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