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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

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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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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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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 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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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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