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Evelyn Waugh: 'Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.'

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Evelyn Waugh: 'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'

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Mary Shelley: 'My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.'

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Mary Shelley: 'Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!'

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Mary Shelley: 'The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.'

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Mary Shelley: 'What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.'

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Mary Shelley: 'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'

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Mary Shelley: 'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.'

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Mary Shelley: 'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'

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Mary Shelley: 'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'

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Mary Shelley: 'The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.'

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Mary Shelley: 'A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.'

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Mary Shelley: 'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.'

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Mary Shelley: 'Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.'

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Mary Shelley: 'Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.'

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Mary Shelley: 'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.'

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Paul W. S. Anderson: 'I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.'

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