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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.

Winifred Holtby

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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Suffragette
Writer
Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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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!
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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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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 ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
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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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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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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
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Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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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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