"Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant"

-- Elizabeth Bowen

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“My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.”
“If someone else was in the room, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing what I wanted to do. I would try to play something that the other person or people would love or would like, at least. Nothing was true because I was not playing what I wanted, and they were not listening to anything that was coming from anywhere true.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.”

Source : "John Randolph of Roanoke". Book by William Cabell Bruce, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 204, 1773 - 1833.
“To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.”
“Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.”
“The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.”

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