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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
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When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
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It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.
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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
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the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
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Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.
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A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.
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Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.
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