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George Gissing has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to…
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate…
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children,…
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;…
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental…
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay,…
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author…
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I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
— Yehuda Amichai
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Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living.…
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I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.
— James Lileks
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Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
— George Gissing
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Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who…
— Laini Taylor
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics…
— Yehuda Amichai
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Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?
— Condoleezza Rice
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A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told…
— Miss Read
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