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“Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth!”

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Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby (June 23, 1898 - September 29, 1935) was an English novelist known for her works that focused on social issues, particularly the struggles of women and the working class. more

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“I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Might Bits Black Color Clothes My Time Funeral Black People

Book:South Riding

Source: South Riding

“All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!”

Lord Dangerous Innovation Dry Conventions Resignation Stagnation Groove Clique Adventuring

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.”

Ifs World Ends Adventure Balance Cruelty Variety Richness Loveliness

Book:South Riding

Source: South Riding

“The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.”

Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.”

Ifs Body Action Given Animal Eating Roots If I Could Significance Ritual Grain Filling Utilitarian

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.”

Ifs Men Life Is Activity Praise Equality Worthy Substance Unworthy Life Is Good

Author:Winifred Holtby

“it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.”

Persons Two Remember Suffering Passion Walks Results Poverty Fire Personality Experience Independent Safety Attraction Income Burned Immunity

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.”

Civilization Golf Defects Distressing

Book:Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrevelevance

Source: Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrevelevance

“You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?”

Ifs Thinking World Should Matter Happiness Joy Draws Painful Golden What Matters Arrivals Transitory Golden Days

Author:Winifred Holtby

“Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.”

People Men World Giving Reality Happiness Sorrow Drug Blind Moved Frustration Deaf Discontent Insensible

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of