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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.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
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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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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
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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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...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
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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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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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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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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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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 have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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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 am too dark in my heart tonight.
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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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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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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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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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