Marjorie Bowen famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?
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Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.
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Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.
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what a rope of sand we are without a leader ...
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It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.
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I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.
-- Marjorie Bowen
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
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Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
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Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
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To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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