Jo Baker quotes
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“Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.”
-- Jo BakerSource : "Longbourn: A novel of Pride and Prejudice below stairs". Book by Jo Baker, 2013.
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“Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.”
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“Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.”
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“It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go.”
-- Jo BakerSource : Jo Baker (2013). “Longbourn”, p.163, Random House
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Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.70, Three Rivers Press
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“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”
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“I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.”
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“I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.”
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