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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
Bird
Desire
Easy
Sings
Delight

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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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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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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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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 would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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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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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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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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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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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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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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