"one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow."

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Stevie Smith

#People Quotes #Spirited Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.”
“The real test of love is when a personâ€”including youâ€”can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.”

Source : Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities”, Greenery Pr
“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.”
“I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.”
“If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.”
“Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.”
“You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts.”
“With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ only by degree, from the fishes to the birds to the monkeys to humans.”

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