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Quote by Isobelle Carmody

“Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.”

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Isobelle Carmody is an Australian author renowned for her fantasy novels. Born on June 16, 1958, she has been publishing works since 1987, with her books enjoying widespread popularity among readers. more

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”

Long Has Beens Literature Given Women Long Time Kingdoms Queens Ruling

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean”

Knows Mean Who I Am Leaves Of Grass Six Feet Under

Book:The Americanness of Walt Whitman

Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman

“I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.”