Quote by Julie Burchill
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my

As a child, I wanted only two things – to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. – Julie Burchill

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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. – Julie Burchill

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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. – Julie Burchill

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Age
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Stress was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification. – Julie Burchill

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I finally faced the fact that it isnt a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. – Whitney Houston

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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. – Maxwell Maltz

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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they cant find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, youre not alone. – Arthur C. Brooks

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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because were hardwired not to always think clearly when were scared. And the countrys scared. – Barack Obama

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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. – Thomas A. Edison

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

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