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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

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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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Hunted
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Hunters
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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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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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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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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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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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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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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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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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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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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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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