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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.
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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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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Those who prepare for war get it.
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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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Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.
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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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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
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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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it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable its experiences have value because they have an end.
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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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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
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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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why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
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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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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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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.
Winifred Holtby
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
Winifred Holtby
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.
Winifred Holtby
