Top 18 Elspeth Huxley Quotes
#1. When the present stung her, she sought her antidote in the future, which was as sure to hold achievement as the dying flower to hold the fruit when its petals wither.
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#2. You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
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#3. This was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstanttial as a cloud, as iridescent as a dragon-fly and as innocent as the heart of a rose.
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#4. English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
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#5. To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
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#6. How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.
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#7. Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.
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#8. The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life ...
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#9. Africa is cruel ... it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds
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#10. One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'
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#11. Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
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#12. [ ... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.
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#13. Tilly was downcast; as with all perfectionists, it was the detail others might not notice that destroyed for her the pleasure of achievement.
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#14. They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.
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#15. What sorts of sin?
Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural.
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#16. The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.
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#17. That's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.
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