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The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' — and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.

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He saw his life as a good thing, and he saw happiness, towards which that life had always consciously or unconsciously struggled, as merely a relative good. The real stuff of life was experience, in which sorrow and fear and disaster had as important a part to play as beauty and joy.

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Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.

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Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

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The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

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A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

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Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood.... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

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Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith
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Born: February 4, 1887
Died: January 14, 1956 (aged 68)
Bio: Sheila Kaye-Smith was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition.
Known for:
  1. Joanna Godden (1921)
  2. Sussex gorse (1916)
  3. The tramping Methodist (1905)
  4. Green apple harvest (1920)
  5. Tamarisk town

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