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Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
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In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything…
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We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our…
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Time itself made all things rare.
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When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in…
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A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with…
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Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of…
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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or…
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You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some…
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There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight…
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Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it…
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Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you…
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us…
— Paracelsus
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This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles…
— Pope Paul VI
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God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
— Eugene Delacroix
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A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
— Blaise Pascal
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The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
— Lionel Shriver
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
— Blaise Pascal
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What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is…
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
— Blaise Pascal
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