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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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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom…
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Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other…
— Unknown Author
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
— Hafez
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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.
— Rose Macaulay
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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the…
— Erik Larson
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I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given…
— Art Linkletter
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There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
— John Oliver
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Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
— Al Goldstein
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I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist;…
— Cornell Woolrich
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