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Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ... (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Those who prepare for war get it (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Youth knows no remedy for grief but death (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Remorse... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Why haven’t we seventy lives? One is no use (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Progress. There’s a good deal too much o’ this progress about nowadays, an’, what’s more, it’ll have to stop (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don’t (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
The more I see of dogs, the more I like children (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one’s friends, the reproaches of one’s own taste, there’s precious little peace after publishing a book ... (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these. (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
We’re so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don’t even ask if it is inevitable. We’ve got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system. (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
The ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
God give me work, till my life shall end and life, till my work is done (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one’s friends, the reproaches of one’s own taste, there’s precious little peace after publishing a book (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
I can’t think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren’t going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
There’s never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
It’s the things you don’t do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for (Winifred Holtby Quotes)
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