"why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use."

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Winifred Holtby

“Sometimes I think Iâ€™m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side”
“A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.”
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
“There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.”
“Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.”
“Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking.”
“People are the story they tell themselves.”

Source : Source: screenanarchy.com
“Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.”

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