Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes
He struggled to keep his temper. It struck him that both Marta and Chiara took advantage of him by attacking him with their ignorance, or call it innocence. A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.
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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.
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Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
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Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.
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I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.
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He struggled to keep his temper. It struck him that both Marta and Chiara took advantage of him by attacking him with their ignorance, or call it innocence. A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.
