"When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes."

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Source : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

Beryl Bainbridge

#Passion Quotes #Fire Quotes #Ashes Quotes

“Listen more often than you speak.”
“I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.”
“Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.”

Source : "Actress Andie MacDowell". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 16, 2010.
“The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...”
“I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!”
“...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)”
“Good things never last, bad things never die.”

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