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1 " There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. "
― Dodie Smith , I Capture the Castle
2 " Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. "
3 " I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. "
4 " I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. "
5 " Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. "
6 " Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever. "
7 " Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me. "
8 " I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. "
9 " Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere. "
10 " I like seeing people when they can't see me. "
11 " Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance. "
12 " In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry-- in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt. "
13 " When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it. "
14 " And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. "
15 " But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage. "
16 " There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. "
17 " Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder. "
18 " ... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means. "
19 " It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven. "
20 " I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? "
