"I was working as a secretary in Manchester……" — Sophie Hannah
"I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven."
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Sophie Hannah
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18 Quotes by Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah has 18 quotes on this site.
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We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
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But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.
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Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic…
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I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin,…
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Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and…
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You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.
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Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
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All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
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Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round,…
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I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and…
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Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that…
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Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.
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More Fellowship Quotes
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what…
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs.…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of…
— Charles Wesley
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If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your…
— Adrian Rogers
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Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as…
— Unknown Author
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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
— William Wycherley
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The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have…
— Albert Schweitzer
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God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was…
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