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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of…
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.…
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,…
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…
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Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me…
— Meg Cabot
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
— Maggie Grace
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I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women,…
— Sally Hawkins
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I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
— Tippi Hedren
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As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime…
— Romola Garai
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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
— Jasper Fforde
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I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
— Dodie Smith
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Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness…
— Charlotte Bronte
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That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express."…
— Charlotte Bronte
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