41 Quotes by Kate Elliott

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    Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.

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    We dispute the arbitrary distribution of power and wealth, which is claimed as the natural order, but which is in fact not natural at all but rather artificially created and sustained by ancient privileges.

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    How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?''Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to their nature and their surroundings.

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    We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

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    It’s the ones who can’t let go – of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power – who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

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    No one can fall in love at first sight. Love is built over years, not snapped into existence like a flame that can be as easily extinguished.

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    The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.

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    A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there’s life in stillness and quiet too.

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    He had such a kind voice, that of a man who sees his own faults and forgives himself for them – not arrogantly or leniently but with wisdom – knowing he, as are all humans, is hopelessly flawed.

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