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Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
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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Everybody
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we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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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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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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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.
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Those who prepare for war get it.
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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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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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But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence
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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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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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We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.
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It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.
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All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!
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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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The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
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Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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