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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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Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ...…
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