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The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.
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Her children are either deceased, or following some profession abroad. I too follow professions, but at some distance behind, and seldom catch up with them.
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To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being.... The open mind is the empty mind.
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One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
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The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
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His book... makes nice reading for people. But what's the use? Except, of course, to kill time for those who prefer it dead.
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Life, for all its agonies... is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing... and whatever is to come after it — we shall not have this life again.
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Denham felt the relief that follows unaccepted hospitality.
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News is like food; it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
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"Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
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If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.
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It [exaggeration] should be placed by psychologists with the desire for nourishment, for safety, for self-gratifications, and for appreciation, as one of the elemental lusts of man.
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Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.
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Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.
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Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
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Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
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One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.
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You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
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He always looked up and took notice when religion was mentioned; to this family the word was like 'rats' to a dog, owing, perhaps, to their many clerical ancestors, perhaps to the fact that they were latish Victorians.
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Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.
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Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.
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One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestations, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.
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Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.
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Rose Macaulay
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Born:
August 1, 1881
Died:
October 30, 1958
(aged 77)
Bio:
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel.
Known for:
The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
The World My Wilderness (1950)
Pleasure of ruins (1953)
Non-combatants and others (1916)
Potterism (1920)
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