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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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There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.
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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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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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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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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
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Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
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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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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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Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain death is certain but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.
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Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
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[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.
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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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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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