Susanna Clarke (Susanna Mary Clarke) Quotes

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

Susanna Clarke

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• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

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• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

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• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

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• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  

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• What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • Sacrifice
  • Comfort
  • Nobility