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“Thought flies and words go on foot.”

Quote by Julien Green

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“Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.”

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Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.”

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Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.”

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“Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.”

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“In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made”

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Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.”

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Author:William Congreve

“There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.”

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Author:William Congreve

“I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!”

Knows Giving Play Lasts Dies Waiting Fairs Tongue Echoes Last Words Everlasting Incessantly Rotation Fair Play

Book:Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“Who pleases one against his will.”

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Author:William Congreve

“To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.”

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Book:Love for Love

Source: Love for Love