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Margaret Kennedy
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“... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.”
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“It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.”
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“It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.”
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“... where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.”
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“Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.”
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“They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.”
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“Their silence was gauche. Melissa's was not; she was practiced in the art of saying nothing without discourtesy.”
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“[He] has learnt to expect the skinny leg of the chicken.”
Margaret Kennedy, English novelist
(1896 - 1967)
Full name: Margaret Moore Kennedy.