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Quote by Antonia Fraser

“I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.”

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Antonia Fraser is a renowned British historian and author, known for her in-depth research into British history. Her works span from the Tudor to the Stuart periods, with her studies on Mary, Queen of Scots being particularly notable. more

“Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.”

Two Animal Figures Battle Hatred Harder Embrace Eight Stuck Knees Fallen Combat Locked Trapped Exhausted Horns Skulls Ruts Irreversible Rams

Book:Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

“I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans”

Believe I Believe Compromise Jeans Too Short Fitting Life's Too Short

Author:Lykke Li

“I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy.”

Should Firsts Goal Interesting Economy Study Seeing Position Students Materials First Time Economics

Author:Greg Mankiw

“I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.”

Kids Six Eight Decades Boat Bus

Author:Paul Farmer

“Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good”

Persons Values Spirituality Achieve Expression Higher Aim Supreme

Author:Brunello Cucinelli

“I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air”

Want Done Light Air Wind Bears Roots Bounds Glad Limbs Grasping Being Done

Author:X. J. Kennedy

“In poetry, only emotion endures.”

Emotion Endure

Author:X. J. Kennedy

“The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once”

Purpose Happenings

Book:The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992–2001

Source: The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992–2001

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