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...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.
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It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
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I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
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Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
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...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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