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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Women
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Memory
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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. – LL Cool J

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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the films abrasive and wrongfoots people then, yknow, thats great. But I hope it involves an audience. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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The great hope of society is in individual character. – William Ellery Channing

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