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title: "61 Dining table Quotes by 56 authors"
description: "Browse 61 Dining table quotes by 56 authors. Discover the best Dining table sayings and thoughts."
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> [There is a big dining table at In Sung hyung's house. That's our hangout spot, and we drink teas and chat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-woo-bin/there-is-a-big-dining-table-at-in-sung-hyung-s-house-that-s-our/)

[Kim Woo-bin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-woo-bin/)

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> [There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-soubry/there-are-houses-where-they-don-t-any-longer-have-dining-tables-they/)

[Anna Soubry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-soubry/)

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> [“Yet they spoke now across a glass-topped dining table as if words were just words, as if their histories were equivalent.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-doerr/yet-they-spoke-now-across-a-glass-topped-dining-table-as-if-words/)

[Anthony Doerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-doerr/)

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> [I actually built my own dining table back home in Australia. It's a secret hobby of mine that I weirdly find transfixing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benedict-samuel/i-actually-built-my-own-dining-table-back-home-in-australia-it-s-a/)

[Benedict Samuel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benedict-samuel/)

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> [Always leave the dining table with an urge to have had more...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeromy-shingongo/always-leave-the-dining-table-with-an-urge-to-have-had-more/)

[Jeromy Shingongo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeromy-shingongo/)

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> [I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-n-wilson/i-ve-never-had-a-study-in-my-life-i-m-like-jane-austen-i-work-on-the/)

[A. N. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-n-wilson/)

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> [“Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ward/hatred-and-food-were-served-up-in-equal-proportions-at-the-connor/)

[Bill Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ward/)

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> [When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vicky-kaushal/when-i-was-growing-up-my-father-never-got-his-profession-to-the-house/)

[Vicky Kaushal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vicky-kaushal/)

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> [Growing up in Luton, we'd always eat on a cloth, placed on the floor of the living room, with no TV allowed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadiya-hussain/growing-up-in-luton-we-d-always-eat-on-a-cloth-placed-on-the-floor-of/)

[Nadiya Hussain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadiya-hussain/)

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> [“I woke up feeling extra sluggish, probably because I had a hard time sleeping. I grabbed an apple from the dining table…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-the-noob/i-woke-up-feeling-extra-sluggish-probably-because-i-had-a-hard-time/)

Steve the Noob

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> [“Food must pass through the fire before it gets to the dining table. The same way we go through storms to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bassey-johnson/food-must-pass-through-the-fire-before-it-gets-to-the-dining-table/)

[Michael Bassey Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bassey-johnson/)

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> [Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vicky-kaushal/subconsciously-there-was-always-an-actor-inside-me-but-while-growing/)

[Vicky Kaushal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vicky-kaushal/)

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> [Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clinton-smith/think-beyond-the-vase-if-you-have-a-vase-of-flowers-on-a-dining-table/)

[Clinton Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clinton-smith/)

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> [“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moon-unit-zappa/i-had-a-friend-whose-family-had-dinner-together-every-day-the-mother/)

[Moon Unit Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moon-unit-zappa/)

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> [He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nora-roberts/he-trailed-off-as-he-saw-the-books-piles-and-stacks-of-them-beside/)

[Nora Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nora-roberts/)

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> [If I were to give you a Birthday cake, it would be as big as a trampoline and as long as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-i-were-to-give-you-a-birthday-cake-it-would-be-as-big-as-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-ferber/roast-beef-medium-is-not-only-a-food-it-is-a-philosophy-seated-at/)

[Edna Ferber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-ferber/)

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> [Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tricia-rhodes/most-people-would-say-they-live-with-an-internal-angst-that-they-can/)

[Tricia Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tricia-rhodes/)

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> [“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-dining-table-was-a-plain-board-called-by-that-name-it-was-hung-on/)

[Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/)

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> [I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/feisal-abdul-rauf/i-was-completely-surrounded-by-religion-from-a-young-time-i-was/)

[Feisal Abdul Rauf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/feisal-abdul-rauf/)

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> [Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-johnson/ping-pong-was-invented-on-the-dining-tables-of-england-in-the-19th/)

[Boris Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-johnson/)

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> [He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabrina-jeffries/he-stared-past-her-to-the-place-at-the-other-end-of-the-dining-table/)

[Sabrina Jeffries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabrina-jeffries/)

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> [“streaking in front of her peers. Raj McKenna clearly respected power. That’s what he really wanted from Gray—to strip her of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-jefford/streaking-in-front-of-her-peers-raj-mckenna-clearly-respected-power/)

[Nikki Jefford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-jefford/)

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> [“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-renard/the-dinner-table-is-often-the-terrain-of-critical-conversations-for/)

[Maurice Renard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-renard/)

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> [“As I completed dinner preparation, Rosie set the table—not the conventional dining table in the living room, but a makeshift table on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graeme-simsion/as-i-completed-dinner-preparation-rosie-set-the-table-not-the/)

[Graeme Simsion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graeme-simsion/)

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> [“Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-goldberg/monk-worked-on-his-remaining-intertect-cases-at-his-dining-table/)

[Lee Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-goldberg/)

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> [“Dining tables were dressed in hunter-green velvet linens. Royal Staffordshire Tonquin Brown dinner plates sat on top of hammered copper chargers. Cut-crystal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-hollis-huddleston/dining-tables-were-dressed-in-hunter-green-velvet-linens-royal/)

Mary Hollis Huddleston

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> [Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaimy-gordon/never-far-from-a-dining-table-the-characters-in-heather-a-slomski-s/)

[Jaimy Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaimy-gordon/)

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> [The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-carriger/the-more-lord-maccon-considered-it-the-more-he-grew-to-like-the-idea/)

[Gail Carriger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-carriger/)

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> [“Quickly she shredded the cabbage on the chopping block and tossed it along with the onion and tomatoes in a blue Pyrex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-dobson/quickly-she-shredded-the-cabbage-on-the-chopping-block-and-tossed-it/)

[Melanie Dobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melanie-dobson/)

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> [“Hello everyone (Fools & Wise Ones)! Welcome to New Month, April! A month known for sunshine, spring vibes & it’s fool’s day.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajesh-goyal-2/hello-everyone-fools-wise-ones-welcome-to-new-month-april-a-month/)

[Rajesh Goyal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajesh-goyal-2/)

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> [“I'd painted nearly every surface in the main room. And not with just broad swaths of colour, but with decorations- little images.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-j-maas/i-d-painted-nearly-every-surface-in-the-main-room-and-not-with-just/)

[Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/)

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> [“Being mindful of Aunt Kathy’s presence, I turned to reading the Bible while sitting in the living room. It was my way ofkeeping my aunt at bay. Yet, my facade didn’t sustain me for long. I got called to the dining table anyway. Next, I was told to follow Jerry’s instructions once we left the house.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-phifer/being-mindful-of-aunt-kathy-s-presence-i-turned-to-reading-the-bible/)

[Harold Phifer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-phifer/)

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> [When You Were 15 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You... You Blushed.. You Looked Down And Smile.. When You Were 20…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ritu-ghatourey/when-you-were-15-yrs-old-i-said-i-love-you-you-blushed-you-looked/)

[Ritu Ghatourey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ritu-ghatourey/)

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> [“RJ gets to work in the kitchen on the dinner he is preparing, allowing me to sous chef. He seasons duck breasts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacey-ballis/rj-gets-to-work-in-the-kitchen-on-the-dinner-he-is-preparing-allowing/)

[Stacey Ballis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacey-ballis/)

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> [“Nor were the intellectuals of the 1920s a vanguard of a new outlook, as they themselves supposed, but the exhausted rearguard of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/correlli-barnett/nor-were-the-intellectuals-of-the-1920s-a-vanguard-of-a-new-outlook/)

Correlli Barnett

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> [“Physical beauty is a subject that many skirt around and almost everyone attempts to down-play thereby demonstrating some sound moral stance, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-fellowes/physical-beauty-is-a-subject-that-many-skirt-around-and-almost/)

[Julian Fellowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-fellowes/)

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> [I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-n-wilson/i-m-like-jane-austen-i-work-on-the-corner-of-the-dining-table/)

[A. N. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-n-wilson/)

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> [I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/i-developed-the-habit-of-writing-novels-behind-a-closed-door-or-at-my/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

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> [Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-ferber/roast-beef-medium-is-not-only-a-food-it-is-a-philosophy-roast-beef/)

[Edna Ferber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-ferber/)

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                        "text": "“streaking in front of her peers. Raj McKenna clearly respected power. That’s what he really wanted from Gray—to strip her of her most prized spell and make it his own. Let’s how fast he’d ditch her once he’d gotten what he wanted. Gray pushed her bowl of oatmeal aside and stared across the dining table at her mother.”",
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                        "text": "“As I completed dinner preparation, Rosie set the table—not the conventional dining table in the living room, but a makeshift table on the balcony, created by taking a whiteboard from the kitchen wall and placing it on top of the two big plant pots, from which the dead plants had been removed. A white sheet from the linen cupboard had been added in the role of tablecloth. Silver cutlery—a housewarming gift from my parents that had never been used—and the decorative wineglasses were on the table. She was destroying my apartment!”",
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                        "text": "Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.",
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                        "text": "The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.",
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                        "text": "“Quickly she shredded the cabbage on the chopping block and tossed it along with the onion and tomatoes in a blue Pyrex bowl. Then she slid the lamb chops, encrusted with fresh rosemary, into the oven. While the lamb baked, she brushed her hair in the washroom and pinned it back again. Then she zipped on a silk floral dress she'd purchased in Bristol and retrieved her grandmother's rhinestone necklace, one of the few family heirlooms her mother packed for her, to clasp around her neck. At the foot of the bed was the antique trunk she'd brought from her childhood home in Balham more than a decade ago. Opening the trunk, she removed her wedding album along with her treasured copy of 'The Secret Garden' and the tubes of watercolors her father had sent with her and her brother. Her father hoped she would spend time painting on the coast, but Maggie hadn't inherited his talent or passion for art. Sometimes she wondered if Edmund would have become an artist. Carefully she took out her newest treasures- pieces of crystal she and Walter hd received as wedding presents, protected by pages and pages of her husband's newspaper. She unwrapped the crystal and two silver candlesticks, then set them on the white-cloaked dining table. She arranged the candlesticks alongside a small silver bowl filled with mint jelly and a basket with sliced whole-meal bread from the bakery. After placing white, tapered candles into the candlesticks, she lit them and stepped back to admire her handiwork. Satisfied, she blew them out. Once she heard Walter at the door, she'd quickly relight the candles. When the timer chimed, she removed the lamb chops and turned off the oven, placing the pan on her stovetop and covering it with foil. She'd learned a lot about housekeeping in the past decade, and now she was determined to learn how to be the best wife to Walter. And a doting mother to their children. If only she could avoid the whispers from her aunt's friends.”",
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                        "text": "“Hello everyone (Fools & Wise Ones)! Welcome to New Month, April! A month known for sunshine, spring vibes & it’s fool’s day. Honestly speaking, it is human nature to think wisely & act foolishly. Isn’t that the truth? We spend hours contemplating the best course of action, only to be tripped up by emotions, impulses or that one extra Gulab Jamun or laddu staring us from our dining table. Sweetheart, Isn’t that just delightful? Here’s to thinking big, acting…well, sometimes a little less big & learning to laugh along the way. Remember, even the wisest person trips on their shoelaces occasionally. But hold on, dear, before you align yourself to a life of perpetual folly, here’s the good news: The fact that we CAN think wisely means we CAN act wisely. I wish & hope that from today itself you will begin to catch yourself in the act of thinking foolishly (every time)… Darling listen – we’ll still have our April Fools’ Day moments (because, let’s face it, sometimes life is the biggest prankster of all). But by acknowledging this human tendency & taking steps to bridge the wisdom-action gap, we can turn this month & every month, into a celebration of our ability to be not just thoughtful creatures, but thoughtful doers. May this month be everything you hope for & more! Happy New Month! Blessings!”",
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                        "text": "“Being mindful of Aunt Kathy’s presence, I turned to reading the Bible while sitting in the living room. It was my way ofkeeping my aunt at bay. Yet, my facade didn’t sustain me for long. I got called to the dining table anyway. Next, I was told to follow Jerry’s instructions once we left the house. Then to my surprise, Aunt Kathy made breakfast for me anyway. Immediately, I was on high alert! “Oh hell, how do I get beyond this meal!” There I was staring at bread blackened on one side and too soggy to fall off the plate. The bacon was two inches thick and fried hard enough to be a shoe insert. The grits had settled to a pace. My eggs were a perfect substitute for popcorn. Even though I had no appetite, I had to gobble something down or risk being ridiculed by my aunt. Aunt Kathy made her own homemade peach preserves. It was extremely sweet and more concentrated than Playdough. I knew if she saw me using her sauce, she’d overlook the other items I left untouched. If lucky, thefermentation was potent enough to buzz me all day long. So, I made sure she’ll see me spreading that paste all over my charcoal toast. Of course, I made the yummy sound “yums” as I took bite after bite. Fortunately, Aunt Kathy fell hook, line, and sinker for my facade. “I seeyou love that jelly! But I’m not going to let you eat all my jam! People will pay lots of money for that good stuff!” “Yes Ma’am,” I said. Simply amazing! Being she had food she thought I liked, there was a limit. But if I hated something then I had to be force-fed. As Aunt Kathy talked, I fumbled and moved my food around as she gave me directives for the day. “When school is over, make sure to wait on the steps for your brother.” “Yes Ma’am,” I said once again.”",
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                        "text": "“RJ gets to work in the kitchen on the dinner he is preparing, allowing me to sous chef. He seasons duck breasts with salt, pepper, coriander, and orange zest. Puts a pot of wild rice on to cook, asks me to top and tail some green beans. We open a bottle of Riesling, sipping while we cook, and I light a fire. The place gets cozy, full of delicious smells and the crackling fire. We ignore the dining table in favor of sitting on the floor in front of the fire, and tuck in. \"This is amazing,\" I tell him, blown away by the duck, perfectly medium-rare and succulent, with crispy, fully rendered skin. \"Really, honey, it couldn't be better.\" \"Thank you, baby. That's a major compliment. And I have to say, I love cooking with you.\" \"I love cooking with you.\" And I did. I never once felt like I wanted to jump in or make a change, or suggest a different choice. I followed him as I would have followed any chef, and the results of trusting him are completely delicious, literally and figuratively.”",
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                        "text": "“Nor were the intellectuals of the 1920s a vanguard of a new outlook, as they themselves supposed, but the exhausted rearguard of Victorian romanticism. They sought refuge from an industrialised and ugly world. Some, like Virginia Woolf, found it in polishing up an exquisite sensibility. Others, like her husband Leonard Woolf and of course Gilbert Murray, found escape in designing an ideal society...It was a sheltered world, this of the intelligentsia of the 1920s, its inhabitants mostly shielded by private means from crude personal reminders of the outside struggle for survival. They circulated at leisure from country house to country cottage...back again to Bloomsbury or one of the ancient universities; convinced that they carried in their luggage the soul of civilisation. The memoirs of the epoch are fragrant with cultured weekends - witty chat on the lawn and brilliant profundity at the dining table. It was a circle of flimsy and precious people, of whom Lady Ottoline Morrell was perhaps the manliest. And so, while not all intellectuals were active pacifists or internationalists, they were generally more concerned with classical French and Greek culture - 'the good life' - than with 'Philistine' matters like industrial and strategic power.”",
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                        "text": "“Physical beauty is a subject that many skirt around and almost everyone attempts to down-play thereby demonstrating some sound moral stance, but it remains one of the glories of human existence. Of course, there are many people who are attractive without being beautiful just as there are beauties who bore, and the danger of beauty in the very young is that it can make the business of life seem deceptively easy. All this I am fully aware of. I know too, however, that of the four great gifts that the fairies may or may not bring to the christening – Brains, Birth, Beauty and Money – it is Beauty that makes locked doors spring open at a touch. Whether it is for a job interview, a place at a dining table, a brilliant promotion or a lift on the motorway, everyone, regardless of their sex or their sexual proclivity, would always rather deal with a good-looking face. And no one is more aware of this than the Beauties themselves. They have a power they simultaneously respect and take for granted. Despite the moralists who tut about its transience, it is generally a power that is never completely lost. One can usually trace in the wrinkled lines of a nonagenarian, stooped and leaning on a stick, the style and confidence that turned heads in a ballroom in 1929.”",
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                        "text": "I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.",
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