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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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Love
Shop
Shops
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Talking
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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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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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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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