"My story is the story of many postwar……" — Sarah Waters
"My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence."
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37 Quotes by Sarah Waters
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There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
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I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might…
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For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of…
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I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
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Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling…
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Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the…
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself…
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She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of…
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness,…
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And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt…
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Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
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It's a curious, wanting thing.
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More Affluence Quotes
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
— Ray Charles
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
— Samuel Johnson
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
— Thomas Paine
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control…
— Joan Didion
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It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned…
— Rich Mullins
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From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to…
— Henri Lefebvre
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I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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