Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
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Only the young die good.
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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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I am happy because I am no longer an author.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
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[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?
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An author departs, he does not die.
