"In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live."

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Source : 'The White Cliffs' (1940) p. 70

Alice Duer Miller

#Wish Quotes #England Quotes #World Quotes

“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
“I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.”
“The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.”
“People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.”
“Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.”
“Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.”
“No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.”
“But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.”

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