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Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a…

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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…
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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.…
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,…
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
Of course I loved books more than people.
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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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience. — Kage Baker
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Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat.… — Aristotle Onassis
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of. — Dolly Parton
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? — Mary Oliver
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I… — Diane Setterfield
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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