"It did seem hard to be doing something……" — Frances Hardinge
"It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice."
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42 Quotes by Frances Hardinge
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Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page…
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Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
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True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
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If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do…
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Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain…
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Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent.…
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If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never…
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The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.
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Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...
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I want my chirfugging goose back!
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You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent
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I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose…
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without…
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and…
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you…
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
— Jeremy Bentham
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
— Bernard Berenson
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I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my…
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've…
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When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
— Tom Brady
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I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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