Rose Macaulay - Life Quotes

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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Rose Macaulay
To lunch with the important... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Rose Macaulay
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

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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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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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I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangenesses.

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A primitive insurance against disaster.... That's a perversion. Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

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They none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this — animated, but collateral.

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