Quotes by Fawn M. Brodie

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• A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

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• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

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• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

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• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• autobiography
• combination
• insatiable
• friendship
• unbearable
• housework

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