"If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by"

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Source : Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC

Alison Weir

#Book Quotes #Leave Me Alone Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.”
“You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.”
“If I could be working every day, I would be.”
“In the pre-Internet age you had to find gay things - or things that were slightly radioactive with erotic interest. You had to go to the library, you had to find the books; you had to find the coded things. When everything's available and everything's okay, what does it become? It becomes shopping. We're shopping all the time, basically, whether for objects, or people. On Manhunt or Grindr, or whatever. It's click to buy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.”
“Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.”
“Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.”
“There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.”

Source : Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.133, Vintage

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