Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.

Elizabeth von Arnim

• Good
• Unhappy
• Miserable

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• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

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• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

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• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

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• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

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• I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

  

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• The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

  

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• The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

  

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• It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check.

  

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• Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

  

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• A new factor enters the situation when we encounter the influence of ‘scientific socialism.’ It is true, the party platform declares that ‘religion is a private affair.’ The saving of souls is the only industry that socialism distinctly relegates to private enterprise.

  

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• If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.

  

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• Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!

  

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• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  

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• I always ask the question: As more Africans are going online, are they finding content that is meaningful and relevant to them, or are they just consuming from everywhere else. As Africans, we have the capacity to generate our own content.

  

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• I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

  

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• And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

  

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• I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Good
  • Unhappy
  • Miserable