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Evelyn Wyrd

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Evelyn’s Quotes

“So may a love of money make an intelligent man small-minded and ridiculous.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: cruelty, money

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“I can't see why feminists don't demand that The Taming of the Shrew be cancelled and expelled from libraries. It's diabolical, even for those times.”
― Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

tags: feminism, feminist, poetry, shakespeare, taming-of-the-shrew

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“Guildenstern: Wasn't that the end?
Player King: You call that an ending? - with practically everyone still on his feet? My goodness, no - over your dead body!”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: death, ending, play, theater, tragedy

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“He is, he prides himself, adept at dissembling: at reading the thoughts of others, at guessing where they will jump, what they will do next. Life with a quick-tempered parent will hone these skills at an early age.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

tags: abuse, dissembling, parental-abuse

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“Take the attitude that what you're thinking and feeling is valuable stuff, and then be naive enough to get it all down on paper. But, be careful: if your intuition says that your story sucks, make sure it really is your intuition and not your mother.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: creativity, intuition, writing

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