"You can always, and easily, give somebody the……" — Sophie Hannah
"You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair."
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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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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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I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter…
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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 Despair Quotes
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
— Georges Bataille
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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