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George Eliot

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

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"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

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Amber Hurdle

"As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby."

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"My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'"

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"As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection."

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"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."

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Amber Hurdle

"I can ski out of my back door."

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"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."

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Amber Hurdle

"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."

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"I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography."

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"I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds."

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"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
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"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
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"Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness."
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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."
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"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
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"It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite."
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"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
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