Rose Macaulay Quotes

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He would do the thing thoroughly. He would enter once more into that great ark of refuge from perplexing thoughts, the Roman branch of the Catholic Church.

Rose Macaulay
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Rose Macaulay
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

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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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News is like food; it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

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Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures. Charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed with companions of their own age and selection.

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Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

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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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Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect — all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

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Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.

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But I mustn't bother you with this. One should consume one's own smoke.

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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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God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

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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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