Isabel Colegate quotes
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“It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.”
-- Isabel ColegateSource : Source: www.glamour.com
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“In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.”
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“We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.”
-- Isabel ColegateSource : Isabel Colegate (1984). “Three Novels: 2”, Viking Adult
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“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
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Source : The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1
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Source : "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.
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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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