“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
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“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”
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“On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this gave our guilt a tinge of hopelessness because, up to then, we had believed that as we grew older our faults would disappear, and none of them did.”
― The Greengage Summer
― The Greengage Summer
“Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.”
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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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