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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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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is…
— Bill Bryson
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It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to…
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The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
— Margaret Cho
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Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
— Mother Teresa
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and…
— Dalai Lama
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
— Sigmund Freud
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces…
— Thomas Carlyle
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For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but…
— Leslie Charteris
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The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
— George Stigler
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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him…
— Mother Teresa
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