"There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby."

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Source : Charlene Weir (1992). “The Winter Widow”, p.42, Macmillan

Charlene Weir

#Credit Quotes #Embarrassment Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.”

Source : Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan
“I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.”
“The arts are essenÂtial to any comÂplete national life. The State owes it to itself to susÂtain and encourÂage themâ€¦.Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the revÂerÂence and delight which are their due.”
“So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.”
“The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.”
“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”
“Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.”
“Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But thatâ€™s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it”

Source : mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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