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Has Beens Quotes - Page 29

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

"Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.204, Anchor

I do not fear it: I have been there.

Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.18, Faber & Faber

I love what's left after love has been tested.

Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

Sophocles (2008). “Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra”, p.112, OUP Oxford

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

Simon R. Green (2016). “Deathstalker Destiny”, p.288, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish.

"Sienna Miller confesses: 'I have been foolish when it comes to love'". www.mirror.co.uk. August 05, 2009.