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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Sings
Delight
Bird
Desire
Easy

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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.
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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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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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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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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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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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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
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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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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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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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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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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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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
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I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.
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