Jenny Joseph famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
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I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
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The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.
-- Jenny Joseph
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
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You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.
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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
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Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!
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parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.
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When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!
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Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
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The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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