"... Why, it would really be being unselfish……" — Elizabeth von Arnim
"... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer."
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Elizabeth von Arnim
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25 Quotes by Elizabeth von Arnim
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If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself;…
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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
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Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every…
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The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.
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And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.
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She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction…
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Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every…
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For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately…
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if…
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Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.
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Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her.…
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I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come…
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month…
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a…
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back…
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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
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When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think…
— Matthew Bourne
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance…
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