"Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem."

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Ronald Blythe

#Drama Quotes #Battle Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.”

Source : Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”
“Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.”
“Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing.”
“I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.”
“I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I truly believe it makes us stronger.”
“People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boringâ€”they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance youâ€”you're one in a million. You're happyâ€””
“The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.”
“And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.”

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