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There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

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
Dies
Peace
Able
Find
Sensibly
Live
Bravely
Never
Lack
Men
Willing
Trouble

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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, 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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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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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
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