All That Glisters by Caroline Taggart
Author:Caroline Taggart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
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GOODNESS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
Love, sex, friendship, hatred – here is what the famous and the infamous have had to say on human relationships in all their colours.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle
A comforting thought for the unattached among us, from Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote, among many other things, the books on which the musical Show Boat and the James Dean film Giant were based. She lived to the age of eighty-two without ever, apparently, engaging in a romantic relationship of any kind, so presumably she knew what she was talking about when it came to being an ‘old maid’. What experience she had of drowning is less easy to assess.
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