"Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

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“People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,”
“I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.”
“The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”
“FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it.”
“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.”

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“Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical”
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
“Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.”

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