"With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes."

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Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1900). “The Martyrs' Idyl and Shorter Poems”

Louise Imogen Guiney

#Girlhood Quotes

“I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.”

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“In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.”
“Hell itself must yield to industry.”
“Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.”
“If I spend 100 days in a row making music thereâ€™s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music itâ€™s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.”
“Blood is the god of war's rich livery.”
“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”
“Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.”

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