Monica Furlong Quotes

#1. What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Monica Furlong

#2. Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?
Juniper: I can't be bothered.

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#3. If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

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#4. What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

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#5. Resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

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#6. It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

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#7. All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.

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#8. People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together ... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Monica Furlong