Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
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I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set a time limit for political reforms in Hong Kong. And in four years time, there won't be a strongman to name the General Secretary at the party congress. That means that the various factions will have to develop better rules for naming their leader. But there won't be a timeline for political reform.
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Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
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I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
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There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.
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Liberty and equality are magical words.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.
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Music has always been a part of my life. It's my way of expression.
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I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
