Blanche Willis Howard quotes

“how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.”
-- Blanche Willis Howard

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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“A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.”
-- Blanche Willis Howard

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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“We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.”
-- Blanche Willis Howard

Source : Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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“It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.”
-- Blanche Willis Howard

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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“Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.”
-- Blanche Willis Howard

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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“writing, like living, is lonely work.”
-- Blanche Willis Howard

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.”

“Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”

“I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.”

“When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.”

“suffering is the essence of success!!!”

“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

“A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.”

“When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.”

“Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.”

Source : Alex Comfort (1986). “The Joy of Sex”, Pocket

“I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.”