"Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as……" — Barbara Holland
"Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons."
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10 Quotes by Barbara Holland
Barbara Holland has 10 quotes on this site.
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By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a…
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There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!
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Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day…
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable.
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Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
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I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their…
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The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and…
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Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
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