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Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
Kate Atkinson
I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.
Naomie Harris
'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.


Maggie Grace
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.


Jane Austen
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.


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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.


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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.


Jane Austen
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!


Jane Austen
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.


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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.


Jane Austen
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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.


Jane Austen
If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.
Sebastian Faulks
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.


Jane Austen
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?


Jane Austen
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen
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