Quote by Rose Macaulay
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortification

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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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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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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One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. – Betsy Cohen

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Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at least one — outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. – Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & Worl

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If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma. – Linda Sunshine

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If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. – Linda Sunshine

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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. Thats the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed. – T-Bone Burnett

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. – Voltaire

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