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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
Phyllis Bottome
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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
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