Alexandra Ripley Quotes

#1. Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

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#2. Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

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#3. Everyone knew that once a woman was 30, she might as well be dead.

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#4. I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Lady Starlight

#6. Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

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#7. The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.

Ian Christe

#8. In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

Werner Herzog

#9. After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

Marie Lu

#10. To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for ...

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#11. And the world is where we belong, all of it.

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#12. One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

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#13. During that year Scarlett had been so busy, had experienced such changes in her life, that she'd been able to block out the pain he had caused her. Now it tore her heart, and with the pain was a deep fear of Rhett's unpredictable power. She transformed them into rage. Rage was strengthening.

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#14. The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War

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#15. And she understood. She would have done the same. She understood, too, why she'd been wrong to offer Ballyhara as a substitute for land he'd farmed all his life. It made all his work meaningless, and the work of his sons, his brothers, his father, his father's father.

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#16. I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

Alan Palomo

#17. Every baby's the only in my observation of mothers.

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#18. The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

John Ambrose Fleming

#19. But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

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#20. But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?

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#21. How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

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#22. What could be a better use of your time than establishing a game plan for your life?

Michael Hyatt

#23. What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all.

John Holt

#24. Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.

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#25. I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.

Dan Kaminsky

#26. I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

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#27. I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

Barney Frank

#28. For the love of rocks

Jenn Bennett

#29. No woman can be truly beautiful who is not, also sometimes, truly ugly.

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#30. I guess I let things get me down as far as a person can go, she thought with disgust, and her own scorn warmed her. I won't let it happen again, ever, no matter what comes. Once you get down all the way, the road can only go up.

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#31. And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

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#32. Why don't you put on an animal's pelt and drag me to your house by my hair?

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#33. Johnny Reb' laughed. 'What's it to a soldier the right and the wrong of it all? He's there for the fighting, that's what he likes. Doesn't matter who you're fighting, long as he gives you a good fight.

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#34. If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram ... 'if only' could break your heart.

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#35. That Billy was her only child was testimony to death of the romance.

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