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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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What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to…
— Milton Friedman
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Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme…
— Edmund Burke
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The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think…
— H. L. Mencken
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There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things,…
— Rose Macaulay
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I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
— Jim Broadbent
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I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy…
— Nick Denton
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We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
— Sue Johanson
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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they…
— Jane Porter
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I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.
— Gerald R. Ford
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I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden…
— Floyd Abrams
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