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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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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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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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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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It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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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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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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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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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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Truth is its own defense.
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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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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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