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- She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs…
- She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You…
- There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side…
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they…
- From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this…
- He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end…
- An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has…
- A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless…
- We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool…
- I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
- Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or…
- The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a…
- I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon…
- All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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