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[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Winifred Holtby
Golf, Civilization, Defects
Winifred Holtby (1933). “Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrevelevance”

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Winifred Holtby
Niece, Debt, May
Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

Winifred Holtby
Innovation, Dry, Lord
Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

Winifred Holtby
Regret, Affliction, Cures
Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

Winifred Holtby
Book, Sarcasm, Littles

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