Mary Webb Quotes - Page 2

• It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

  Mary Webb

  Missing, Folks, Depends

  Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”

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• To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

  Mary Webb

  Marriage, Passion, Fire

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• There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.

  Mary Webb

  Loud Voices, Blood, Battle

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