"The sun was shining like a congratulation."

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Source : Margaret Millar (2018). “Experiment in Springtime”, p.95, Soho Press

Margaret Millar

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“It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.”
“. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.”
“What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should want or that books and movies and TV had put across. What I really wanted was to be a working artist, which I am.”
“Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.”
“The playmakers need to read the game and need to be on the same page as the defenders and the forwards.”

Source : Source: dutchsoccersite.org
“marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.”

Source : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.28, Psychology Press
“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”

Source : Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20
“For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.”

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