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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
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Attract
Trick
Tricks
Anyone
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Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
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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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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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They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
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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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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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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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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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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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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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...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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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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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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The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.
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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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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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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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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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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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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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