Pamela Frankau famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.
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Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
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the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.
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I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
-- Pamela Frankau
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That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
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Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
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I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.
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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
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Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.
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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
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Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
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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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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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