Sheila Kaye-Smith quotes
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“I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.”
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1930). “Shepherds in Sackcloth”
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“The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.”
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”
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“Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.”
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”
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“The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.”
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”
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“Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.”
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”
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“Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.”
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”
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“A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.”
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”
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“It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.”
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“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”
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Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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