Ann Bridge (Mary Ann Dolling) Quotes

Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

Ann Bridge

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• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

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• I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.

  

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• In our league, it comes right down to the end.

  

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• Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

  

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• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  

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• I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in an enormous red house and being the son of a millionaire best-selling writer. I mean, I actually had a strangely normal childhood despite all that.

  

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• Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

  

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• Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

  

  Ann Bridge
  • Value
  • Enemy
  • Size