Winifred Holtby Quotes
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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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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
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A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
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Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.