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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. ↗


— James Herriot


#best #clothing #cold #down #early

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring. ↗


— James Herriot


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It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say. ↗


— Arthur Herzog


#chapters #characters #eyes #person #points

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. ↗


— Georgette Heyer


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Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. ↗


— Thor Heyerdahl


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The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. ↗


— Laurence Housman


#connection #conscription #dates #except #existence

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children. ↗


— Dwayne Hickman


#add #away #both #child #child actor

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write. ↗


— Wolfgang Hildesheimer


#before #cast #chest #childish #five

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people. ↗


— Wendy Hiller


#end #like #luckily #old #old people

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle. ↗


— James Hillman


#back #bottle #careful #days #different






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