"There are always two people involved in cruelty,……" — Margaret Mahy
"There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?"
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Margaret Mahy
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40 Quotes by Margaret Mahy
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I…
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother…
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Fear can give you urgent wings.
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Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I…
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Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands,…
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Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen…
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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is…
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Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
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Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
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Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of…
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I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway -…
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When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has…
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
— Bill Gates
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides…
— Unknown Author
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There are always two or three or four sides to every story.
— Denise Richards
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's…
— Barack Obama
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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
— Siri Hustvedt
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the…
— Bernie Siegel
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In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.
— Hannah
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Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.
— Robert A. Johnson
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When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared;…
— Paul Gallico
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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