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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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
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Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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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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why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
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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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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
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Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
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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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I find you in all small and lovely things in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.
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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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