"... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else."

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Phyllis Bottome

“Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.”
“Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.”
“Do I hear a challenge?â€ she whispers, â€œOh, Carlos. You know I canâ€™t resist a challenge.”
“When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”

Source : Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition
“Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, â€œHey Tris!â€ and Uriah cries, â€œOw! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?â€ â€œMy exceptional strength,â€ she says.”
“A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.”
“The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.”

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