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Truth is its own defense.

Phyllis Bottome

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Defense
Truth

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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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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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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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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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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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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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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 a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
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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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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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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