"And habits are hell's own substitute for good……" — Dorothy Dunnett
"And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death."
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Dorothy Dunnett
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29 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Dunnett has 29 quotes on this site.
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Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good…
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in…
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Music, the knife without a hilt,
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a…
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of…
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love…
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should…
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale…
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or…
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