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> [I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/i-don-t-read-much-when-i-m-working-when-i-m-finished-work-i-don-t/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

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## More by Pauline Gedge

> [“Khaemwaset’s eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/khaemwaset-s-eyes-remained-on-the-riverbank-as-the-green-confusion-of/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“The mist was very dark in here, white and wet, and the cobwebs festooning the gaunt tree trunks were weighed down with thousands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/the-mist-was-very-dark-in-here-white-and-wet-and-the-cobwebs/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/i-don-t-read-much-when-i-m-working-when-i-m-finished-work-i-don-t/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/but-now-men-who-could-work-preferred-to-beg-and-the-artists-forgot/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/the-night-folded-around-them-with-a-sweetness-and-poignancy/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“He watched the early light of the new moon glint fretfully on the river, now silver slivers, now darkness, as the night breeze stirred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/he-watched-the-early-light-of-the-new-moon-glint-fretfully-on-the/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“The apple trees were in full bloom, the scent enveloping the party in a heady, almost palpable mist, and pale petals rocked on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/the-apple-trees-were-in-full-bloom-the-scent-enveloping-the-party-in/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit there for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/i-m-not-ashamed-to-say-i-love-television-i-put-the-tv-on-and-my-brain/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/noon-was-approaching-and-the-shadows-under-the-sycamores-were-thin/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/the-feathery-palms-that-lined-the-drainage-canals-the-acacia-thorns/)

[Pauline Gedge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pauline-gedge/)

> [“Bint-Anath was approaching, her many-pleated, floor-length sheath floating scarlet around her, her slim shoulders visible under a billowing white flounced cloak, and the long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pauline-gedge/bint-anath-was-approaching-her-many-pleated-floor-length-sheath/)

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