Jill Tweedie Quotes

• I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

  Jill Tweedie

  Evil, Certain, Stills

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• Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

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  Empleo, Trabajo, Hombres

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

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  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• Es fácil y desolador pensar que la oposición es simplemente perversa o realmente mala, pero es mucho más estimulante verla como algo esencial para perfeccionar la mente y como un bien positivo en sí mismo. Porque el día en que las cuestiones morales dejen de ser objeto de lucha será el día en que la palabra humano desaparezca de la raza.

  Jill Tweedie

  Thinking, Race, Issues

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• My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

  Jill Tweedie

  Cambio, Tiempo, Niños

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.

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  Escritura, Hombres, Dos

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• Los niños son un sucedáneo de planta y no tenemos el ingenio de verlo hasta que es demasiado tarde

  Jill Tweedie

  Children, Too Late, Plant

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