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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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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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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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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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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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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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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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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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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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There is no thermometer for wants!
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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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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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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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 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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