"My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association."

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Source : Phyllis Bentley (2011). “Inheritance”, p.460, A&C Black

Phyllis Bentley

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“The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it;So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.”

Source : "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.
“I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.”
“I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on 'Dynasty' or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.”
“I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.”

Source : Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.”
“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”
“Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.”

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