"Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?"

-- Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

#Brother Quotes #Husband Quotes #War Quotes

“There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.”
“. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.”

Source : Karen Cushman (2012). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

Source : Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company
“On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.”
“Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.”
“There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.”
“Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.”

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