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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Winifred Holtby
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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
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Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
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Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.
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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
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Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.
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no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
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[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
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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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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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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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We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
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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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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
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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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