Rose Macaulay

(12 votes)   Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Rose Macaulay
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(79 votes)   Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

Rose Macaulay
1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist

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(55 votes)   As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Rose Macaulay

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(51 votes)   As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Rose Macaulay
1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist

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(34 votes)   A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Rose Macaulay
1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist

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(27 votes)   Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

Rose Macaulay
1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist

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(13 votes)   It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

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(12 votes)   Love's a disease. But curable.

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(12 votes)   You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

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(11 votes)   It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

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