Celia Fremlin Quotes
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In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
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They give her tractors and things to play with instead of dolls, just to prove that girls are exactly the same as boys. Mind you, they're a bit illogical, it seems to me, because they have never forced me to play with dolls, which I would have thought would have proved the point just as effectively.
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Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.
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If you went on neglecting your own tastes like this, did you, in the end, cease to have any tastes? Cease, in fact, to be a person at all, and become merely a labour-saving gadget around the house?
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What a pity men didn’t gossip about their wives the way women did about their husbands, then they would soon learn that their own wife wasn’t the only one with shortcomings…
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Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round – but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad – really bad – there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it.
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The beautiful, the inessential, must be given priority if it was to exist at all.
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The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.
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Quarrelling could do more damage to the appearance of a house than a party for fifty people, all drunk.
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A man’s character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.
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Hope lights up our darkness.
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Man can’t live by truth alone, you know, and children even less so.
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Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ...