Phyllis Bottome - People Quotes

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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

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It is a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

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Most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble — however dead they were — if there were anything to grumble at.

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She had developed a passionate longing for making other people comfortable at her own expense. The secret satisfactions of her heart had been when she succeeded in getting other people into armchairs, without their knowing she was doing it, and with nothing left for herself but something small and spiky in a corner.

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What most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves.

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