"I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . ."

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Jennifer Haigh

#Voice Quotes #Familiar Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.”
“Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.”

Source : Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt
“My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.”
“And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded.”
“Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.”
“I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.”
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
“If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.”

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