Bette Lord Quotes

• Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

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  Time, Flower, Plant

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• If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.

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  Waiting, World, Hell

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• prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

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  Fate, Prophecy

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• The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

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  Wish, Age, Youth

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• Al ceder somos como el agua, por naturaleza plácida, que se amolda al hueco de la mano más pequeña; con el tiempo, moldea hasta las montañas a su voluntad. Así mantenemos el deber y el honor. Apreciamos el clan y la civilización. Somos chinos.

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  Hands, Civilization, Water

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• to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.

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  Favors, Refuse, Uncivilized

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• you must not use wood to put out the fire.

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  Fire, Use, Woods

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• Principles have a way of yielding to power.

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  Principles, Way

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• Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

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  Chinese, Religion, Sophisticated

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• A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.

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  Secret, Firsts, Chores

  Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?

  Bette Lord

  Dream, Pain, Reality

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