"I can't change what's happened to me in……" — Margaret Laurence
"I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it."
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Margaret Laurence
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12 Quotes by Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence has 12 quotes on this site.
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As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
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When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
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The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.
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Follow your heart, and you perish.
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Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.
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Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life…
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Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?
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What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.
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Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to…
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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
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Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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