Shelagh Delaney Quotes

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Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Shelagh Delaney
I'm not frightened of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.

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He didn't play with his food anymore till it got cold; instead, down it went like a fuel into a furnace keeping the ovens hot, and the energy at boiling point.

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Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

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I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

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Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

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Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

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You need somebody to love you while you're looking for someone to love.

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A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

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The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

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This woman always has plenty to say but she never says anything unless it's already been said by somebody else. With her it's always 'my husband maintains' or 'according to the Daily Express' or 'a man on television was saying last night,' and never I say or I think.

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