"What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils ..."

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Source : Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1102, BookCaps Study Guides

Elizabeth Gaskell

#Waiting Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Use Quotes

“What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.”
“Quickness is the essence of the war.”
“Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.”
“I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.”
“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.”
“It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.”

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“In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.”
“Now piercÃ¨d is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.”

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