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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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Sri Krishnamacharya used to tell me: 'Do the Headstand when you are tired and in need of a tonic; when you are…
— Indra Devi
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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
— Benjamin Rush
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You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While…
— Diane Setterfield
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I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
— Charles Dickens
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If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.
— Anna Akhmatova
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I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse…
— Leo Tolstoy
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