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Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth!
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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Journalist
Novelist
Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
Warm
Europe
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Conversational
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Drinks
Cities
Careless
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Gay
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Lovely
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Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
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I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.
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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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The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.
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Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press but their power exists for good or evil.
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Those who prepare for war get it.
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The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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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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why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
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I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.
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Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
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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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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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The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
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public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed we shall perish, but the cause endures the cause is great.
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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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I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.
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But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence
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