Top 24 Jessica Mitford Quotes
#1. When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
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#2. Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.
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#3. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
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#4. I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
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#5. You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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#6. Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.
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#7. Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...
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#8. Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.
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#9. I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.
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#10. Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
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#11. A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.
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#12. Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
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#13. In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.
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#14. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.
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#15. Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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#16. Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
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#18. Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.
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#19. Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
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#20. The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
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#21. The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.
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#22. It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
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#24. [On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.
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