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I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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But to write - that is grief and labor and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.
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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable its experiences have value because they have an end.
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[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
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We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.
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Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
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We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
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Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
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why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
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What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
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Those who prepare for war get it.
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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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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