"A refined sort of butcher, a woman is."

-- John Osborne

#Butchers Quotes #Refined Quotes

“Some things a lady doesn't tell.”
“We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.”
“The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.”
“If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.”

Source : R. O. Blechman (2009). “Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five years I stopped and wrote Lucinella. I got stuck; it was too hard to write. Lucinella felt like a lark. I wanted to write about the literary circle because it amused me, and I allowed myself to do what I wanted to do. It's just one of the things I'm allowed to do if I feel like it.”
“Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am ...”
“For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.”
“So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.”

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