"The thing about praising beauty is that good……" — Laurie Graham
"The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available."
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23 Quotes by Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham has 23 quotes on this site.
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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In…
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The wheels of publishing never slow down.
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Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for…
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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation…
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices…
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My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as…
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I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue,…
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Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
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I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
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In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
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I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond…
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but…
— Isaac Asimov
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think.…
— J. G. Ballard
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited…
— Douglas Adams
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
— Joseph Addison
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
— Max Beerbohm
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
— Saul Bellow
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
— Benazir Bhutto
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's…
— Joe Biden
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