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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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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
— Francis Bacon
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I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration…
— Barbara Jordan
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Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
— Walter Hagen
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
— Rose Macaulay
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
— Lewis Thomas
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When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes…
— William Barclay
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We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.
— Robert Kelly
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Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…
— Edward Abbey
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The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
— Maurice Sendak
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