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If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

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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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
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Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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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.
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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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