"A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day."

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Source : Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.101, A&C Black

Rose Macaulay

#Freedom Quotes #Hot Quotes #Austerity Quotes

“I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.”
“Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.”
“We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.”
“Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far more serious things to do than indulge in stunts. . . . I do not discard completely the value of demonstrating to the world our skills. Nor do I undervalue the effect on morale of the spectacular. But the present hullabaloo on the propaganda aspects of the program leaves me entirely cool.”
“I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.”
“My daughter speaks with a wisdom beyond her years. We have all come here with anger in our hearts but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward if there is to be more killing it will not start with me.”
“In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.”
“I was taking my dog out the other day and I met this chap who asked me where I was going. The dog is foaming at the mouth, so I explained that I was on my way to the vet to have it put down. He asked if it was mad, to which I replied that it wasn't exactly pleased about it.”

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