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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: 71
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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Kenya's capital
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Everything
William
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Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.
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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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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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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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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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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.
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I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
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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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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
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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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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future I am going to make it happen.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
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If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
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