"I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live."
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"In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante."
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"Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life."
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"The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine."
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"There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to."
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"I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave"
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"I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown."
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"One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage."
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"I like people, for a little while."
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"You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page – but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect – it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for."
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"How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?"
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"When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller."
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"I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it."
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"There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit."
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"Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart."
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"The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you."
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"I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance."
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"The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof."
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"You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work."
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"I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats."
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