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Yvonne Wood
Yvonne Wood quotes
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“On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.”
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“My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.”
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“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”
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“You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.”
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“To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.”
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“I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago”
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“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
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“As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.”
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“Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.”
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“To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.”
