"If a lady comes up to you and……" — Stevie Smith
"If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic."
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Stevie Smith
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31 Quotes by Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith has 31 quotes on this site.
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Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been…
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows.…
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to…
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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my…
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The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just…
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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my…
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O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed…
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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church…
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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