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Diana Wynne Jones quote: "Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping."

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

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I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport. Sue Wicks
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands Stephen King
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No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me. Shirley Manson
Bayard Rustin quote: "The proof that one truly believes is in action."
The proof that one truly believes is in action. Bayard Rustin
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. Edmund Husserl
She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life. Shirley Hazzard
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. Ursula K. Le Guin
I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter Virginia C. Andrews
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
Oscar Wilde quote: "sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that oflove..."
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that oflove touches it Oscar Wilde
Nancy Mitford quote: "I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone..."
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away. Nancy Mitford
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Elizabeth Bishop
Lee Westwood quote: "People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot."
People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot. Lee Westwood
But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled. Charlie Hunter
I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits. Talib Kweli