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• it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

  Winifred Holtby

  Ends, Brevity Of Life, Tolerable

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• I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.

  Winifred Holtby

  Animal, Roots, Body

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• [On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

  Winifred Holtby

  Golf, Civilization, Defects

  Winifred Holtby (1933). “Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrevelevance”

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• 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

  Writing, Creation, Difficulty

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

  Winifred Holtby

  Life Is Good, Equality, Men

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• The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.

  Winifred Holtby

  Dog, Children

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

  Winifred Holtby

  Time, Age, Finals

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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• Those who prepare for war get it.

  Winifred Holtby

  War

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• Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

  Winifred Holtby

  Progress, Too Much, Deals

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• Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.

  Winifred Holtby

  Suicide, Grief, Youth

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

  Winifred Holtby

  Teacher, Teaching, Government

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

  Winifred Holtby

  Change, Progress, Hens

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.

  Winifred Holtby

  Use, Seventies, Havens

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• I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

  Winifred Holtby

  Chocolate, Sorrow, Doe

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

  Winifred Holtby

  Distance, People, Strange

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• If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

  Winifred Holtby

  Fortune, Grouches, Havens

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

  Winifred Holtby

  Passion, Independent, Fire

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

  Winifred Holtby

  Voice, Opinion, Lecturer

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.

  Winifred Holtby

  Writing, Wings, Long

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• 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

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• 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

  Book, Sarcasm, Littles

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• I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Mean, Thinking, Color

  Winifred Holtby (1936). “South Riding”

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• 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

  Flower, Book, Car

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

  Winifred Holtby

  Travel, Lying, Holiday

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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