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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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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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...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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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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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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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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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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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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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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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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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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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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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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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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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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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 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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