Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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This contest has lasted now for more than four years. Were its scene at a distance from our neighborhood, we might be indifferent to its result, although humanity could not be unmoved by many of its incidents wherever they might occur. It is, however, at our door.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
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You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
