"It was one thing not to want a……" — Margo Lanagan
"It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back."
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9 Quotes by Margo Lanagan
Margo Lanagan has 9 quotes on this site.
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Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?
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You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born…
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OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human…
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Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend…
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There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between…
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Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see…
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How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.
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I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster…
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More Bread Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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