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One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!

Mary Borden

Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Mary Borden

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

Mary Borden

Mary Borden

Mary Borden

Born: 1886

Died: 1968 (aged 82)

Bio: Mary Borden was an early 20th-century, Anglo-American novelist.

Known for:

The forbidden zone (1929)
Poems of Love and War
The Tortoise: A Novel (1921)
The Romantic Woman (1920)
You, the Jury: A Novel (1952)

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