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As the weather improved, the bobms got worse. The newspapers said that the Kaiser was aiming to knock London down (although avoiding Buckingham Palace, so as not to hit his relations).


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KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
KATE CHOPIN It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s...
KATE CHOPIN No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is tha...
KATE CAPSHAW The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
KATE CAPSHAW The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that...
KATE CAPSHAW We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, my...
KATE BUSH I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space...
KATE BUSH I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
KATE BUSH I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
KATE BUSH Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'U...
KATE BUSH I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestr...
KATE BUSH I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b...
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