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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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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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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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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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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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 be in the right is often an expensive business.
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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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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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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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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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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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