One's prime is the moment one was born for.
One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
—Oye, Jane, deberías cobrarles la cantidad de tiempo libre que le dedicas a ese trabajo.—El mundo de los libros es ante todo altruista —decía Jane.Siempre se refería al negocio de la edición como el m...
Remember you must die.
Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.
Sandy felt warmly towards Miss Brodie at these times when she saw how she was misled in her idea of Rose. It was then that Miss Brodie looked beautiful and fragile, just as dark heavy Edinburgh itself...
Sex is all right he saysIt’s all right at the time, and it’s all right before says Lise, but the problem is afterwards. That is, if you’re not an animal. Most of the time, afterwards is pretty sad.
She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.
She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The d...
The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to...
The more religious people are, the more perplexing I find them.
It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
They are demanding equal rights with us,’ says Mrs. Fiedke. ‘That’s why I never vote with the Liberals. Perfume, jewellery, hair down to their shoulders, and I’m not talking about the ones who were bo...
To put it squarely, as I say in my memoir, the eternal triangle has come full circle.
When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.
You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
You girls, said Miss Brodie, must learn tocultivate an expression of composure. It is one of the best assets of a woman, an expression of composure, come foul, come fair. Regard the Mona Lisa over yon...
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