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Men will consider deeply before they buy a tie or choose a meal; but when it comes to throwing aside their purpose in life, possibly life itself, they do not think at all. They consent to be marshalled, controlled, exposed to unimagined shock, mutilation and death, with barely a tremor, and their reasons for complying, if indeed they have any, would comparen most shamefully with their reasons for doing anything else.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten!
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, conciliation, pronouncements can prevail over that deep instinctual knowledge.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the intricacies of the smaller memories), and, most of all, the fearful absence of anything that could begin to take their place, had worn him down.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Dessert doesn't count if you're sharing someone else's.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.
Elizabeth Jane Howard