Quote by Rose Macaulay
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. - Ro

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. – Rose Macaulay

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We know one another’s faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. – Rose Macaulay

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Sisters
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. – Rose Macaulay

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Books
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. – Rose Macaulay

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O, she is the antidote to desire. – William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695

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Some people should use a glue stick instead of ChapStick. – Author unknown

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Insults

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. – English professor, Ohio University

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Insults

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. – Benjamin Franklin

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We’re a compulsive but amiable crew, those of us who feel, or have felt, the compulsion to re-record the bright thoughts of other men and women. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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