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Margaret Oliphant

"... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life."

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.67, Broadview Press

Margaret Oliphant

#Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes #House Quotes

“I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big.”
“You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.”
“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.”
“When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There's nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.”

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“You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're just yourself, and you come to terms with yourself struggling. There are some serious, serious things to deal with in terms of the immensity of the suffering that we humans create for ourselves and for the world around us.”

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“I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.”
“I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.”
“The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.”

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