Stella Gibbons Quotes

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

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Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.

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All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*

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Haven't you enough money?'
For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.

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