Barbara Holland Short Quotes

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No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.

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Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painful, humorless, and boring.

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Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

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There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

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Everything from a train window has the feverish reality we yearn for when we travel.

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The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

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In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

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Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

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By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

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Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

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New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

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She's a cat with a strong sense of order and the rightness of things, and would have made an excellent secretary.

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Winston Churchill] poured the gin into a pitcher and then nodded ritually at the bottle of vermouth across the room.

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Parties happened more easily and more often in the olden days; a piano and three or more people constituted a party.

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A woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

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A cardinal in a slant of winter sunlight goes straight to the bloodstream like brandy, and the heart leaps up like a startled stag.

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The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

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Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

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We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

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In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

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Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

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Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

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Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

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Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

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I have ferreted out the alarm clock, plugged it in, and set it, musing on the word 'alarm' and why the world must be wakened daily to cries of panic and danger.

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We're a shifty, sliding population.... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

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Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.

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In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

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However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

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