"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."

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Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

Elizabeth Bowen

#Life Quotes #Positive Attitude Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two hours of English and four hours of Chinese. I thought, what do I need this for? So I stopped going to class.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else”
“Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.”
“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.”
“I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
“I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.”
“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”

Source : Theory of Four Movements vol. 2, ch. 4 (1808)

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