El cursillo aconsejaba a la mujer trabajadora que quisiera mantener la compostura repetir dos veces al día las siguientes frases:
El gigantesco murmullo orgánico de la multitud, en nada semejante a la voz de un ser animado, sino más bien como una catarata o una alteración geológica, se propagaba por los parques y el Mall. Solo l...
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
You will have the benefit of my experiences in Italy.
I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.
Pictures inside frames,' said Dave.'That's really all there is to it/ said Tom...;
Remember you must die.
Sandy was fascinated by the economy of Teddy Lloyd's method, as she had been four years earlier by Miss Brodie''s variations on her love story, when she had attached to her first, war-time lover the a...
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.
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...
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.
However, as soon as Mrs. Hogg stepped into her room she disappeared, she simply disappeared. She had no private life whatsoever. God knows where she went in her privacy.
It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender’s war record so convincing and full when I had said so little – one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it – bu...
Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.
Oh she says the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a cafè. The last one left.
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