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Category Archives: Quotes of Note
Quotes of Note
I recently read a delightful book of quotes titled Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unabridged Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots by Autumn Stevens. (She also has a 2021 day-to-day calendar, which might interest you if … Continue reading
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“Age doesn’t alter one’s outlook on the world, Belle. The essential person is always there. Sometimes, I’m perfectly horrified to look at myself in the mirror and see an ancient crone staring back. I feel no different than I did … Continue reading
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“He was always so plausible. Many People have believed that his version of events was the true one, give or take a few murders, a few beautiful seductresses, a few one-eyed monsters. Even I believed him, from time to time. … Continue reading
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“The young man, they found, was a naturalist, an astronomer, a geographer, a geologist, a botanist, an authority on Indian antiquities, a linguist, an artist—an academy unto himself, as the poet Goethe [one of Humboldt’s friends] would say. He was … Continue reading
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“A book is a hand stretched forth in the dark passage of life to see if there is another to meet it.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe “Some women have a weakness for shoes. . . I can go barefoot if … Continue reading
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“Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a … Continue reading
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“I’m now 81 and I think the happiest years started between sixty and seventy. Apart from illness and pain with my back and a few things like that, I am much happier now. For one thing, I know how to … Continue reading
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“Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.” – Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean … Continue reading
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“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore … Continue reading
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“I do not wish to be ungrateful to Holmes, who has been a good friend to me in many ways. If I have sometimes been inclined to weary of him it is because his character admits of no light or … Continue reading
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