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• Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

  Mae West

  Husband, Men, Iron

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• I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Doors, Long

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• There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

  Rebecca West

  Kind, Imperialism, Bloody

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

  Betty Smith

  People, Quarrels

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• Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Ordinary, Anarchy, Produce

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

  Simone Weil

  Intimate Conversation, Names, Church

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.19, Routledge

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• The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.

  Rachel Carson

  Stars, Ocean, Home

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

  Saint Augustine

  Reputation, Dues, Neighbour

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• The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

  John Green

  People, House, United States

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• Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

  John Green

  Sex, Interesting, Important

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• Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

  Barbara Holland

  Lonely, Jobs, Loss

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Thinking, Race, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.283, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowledge, People, Prejudice

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.667, Library of America

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• No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

  Francoise Sagan

  Bed, Wells, Behave

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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• I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

  Jane Fonda

  Marriage, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

  Jane Wagner

  Distance, Parent, May

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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  People, Listening, Ears

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.318

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Tea, Mystery Novels

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.

  Sara Coleridge

  Country, Blessed, Past

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139

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• two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Cake, Hypocrisy, Chocolate

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• When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cute, Children, Dad

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Character, Reality, Evil

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• Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope.  Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Lying, Space

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