Rose Macaulay Quotes

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• It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
• We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We…
• Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
• Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and…
• They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and…
• Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If…
• The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching…
• Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this…
• Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that…
• Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
• You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
• Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that…
• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
• Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
• As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at…
• Nearly all novels are too long.
• A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.
• Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child…
• Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It…
• Love's a disease. But curable.

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