"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one."

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Penelope Lively

#Beautiful Quotes #Way Quotes #Appearance Quotes

“It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.”
“When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.”
“We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.”
“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
“The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.”
“[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.”
“I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.”

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