Eliza Lynn Linton Quotes

I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.

Eliza Lynn Linton

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• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

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• Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

  

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• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

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• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

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• I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.

  

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• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  

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• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

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• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

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• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

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• I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

  

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• The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.

  

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• I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

  

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• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

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• I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.

  

  Eliza Lynn Linton
  • Light
  • Religion
  • Crime