"I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact."

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Source : Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#Grief Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.”
“Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.”
“Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.”
“When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father's assassination this year. So I am a diehard [Barack] Obama supporter.”
“For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.”

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“One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.”
“Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?”
“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.”

Source : "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.

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