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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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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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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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present. – Aneurin Bevan

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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. – Sam Brown

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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. – George Bancroft

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I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics. – Johnny Mercer, on a British musical

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