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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#certainly #hopeless #i #longed #most

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#difference #loneliness #solitude

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#anything #assumed #because #been #benign

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#go #him #honestly #i #less

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#dearest #even #nearest #often #people

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#end #greatness #high #justifying #manifested

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#controversy #i #i think #important #issues

In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest. ↗

— Martha Smith

#becomes #different #government #groups #huge

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#busy #considering #enough #especially #guess

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class