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Rose Macaulay has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to…
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour…
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions…
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career…
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual…
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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall…
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Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to…
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
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You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill…
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I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit…
— Simon Gray
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We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked…
— Robert Strausz-Hupe
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Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is…
— Laurence Olivier
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have…
— Ansel Adams
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Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church…
— David Foster Wallace
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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be…
— Rose Macaulay
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new…
— Natalie Portman
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
— William James
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That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the…
— Mira Grant
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system…
— Dan Millman
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Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are…
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