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“We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.”
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“Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.”
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“The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.”
Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1971). “The house was quiet and the world was calm”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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“Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.”
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“You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.”
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“About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.”
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“Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”
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“A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.”
Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1997). “The Blue Flower”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
