Delightful Quote by Rose Macaulay

“Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.”

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It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but…

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Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

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To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

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Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do…

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The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

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Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent…

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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have…

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You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…

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I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them…

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All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?…

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Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the…

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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air…

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It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

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What a delightful thing this perspective is!

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Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

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Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself…

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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned…

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A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly…

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In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

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We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and…

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