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Winifred Holtby [1898-1935] English

Rank: 103
Novelist

Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.

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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.	Happiness	101
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.		102
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.		103
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.		104

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