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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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Suffragette
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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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.
Winifred Holtby
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed we shall perish, but the cause endures the cause is great.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.
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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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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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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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the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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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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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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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
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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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I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.
Winifred Holtby
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable its experiences have value because they have an end.
Winifred Holtby
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby
It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.
Winifred Holtby
Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.
Winifred Holtby
The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.
Winifred Holtby
why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
Winifred Holtby