"When I say work I only mean writing.……" — Margaret Laurence
"When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs."
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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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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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I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't…
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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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More Everything Else Quotes
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for,…
— Thomas Arnold
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in…
— Lucille Ball
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice…
— James M. Barrie
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
— Bernard Berenson
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
— Lewis Black
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I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player,…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything…
— Anthony Bourdain
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
— Bertolt Brecht
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When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together…
— Jeff Bridges
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Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
— Nolan Bushnell
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