Anna Maxted famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.
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When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.
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You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.
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If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.
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But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.
-- Anna Maxted
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...
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We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
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