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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.


Edith Nesbitt

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NEIL GAIMAN It just happened so quickly. It's just an astonishing situation that it developed so rapidly.
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JOHN BULWER It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
EMILY BRONTë Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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EMANUEL AX The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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RICK RIORDAN Know Where You Want To Go - And Why.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
SARAH DESSEN the way you how to prove your love is to sucrifice with your self to someone even it is very defficu...
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STEVEN SPIELBERG It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its o...
W. R. INGE It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
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SARAH DESSEN I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
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EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON