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I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

His clothes were cut to compensate nature's mismanagements.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

A nice thing about the man was his way of drawing out the best things she had to say and in a way which made her pleased with herself for having said them.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

We didn't know it at the time. Prouty said afterwards he did, but Prouty's a man who knows everything after the fact. That's being an undertaker I dare say.

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That, if there was any one thing she had learned of America in her forty-two years of residence, was typical of the whole country. Waste, waste, waste.

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He would like someday to pick Timsey's mind, he thought, if he could find anything small enough to pick it with.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Born: April 25, 1916

Died: August 3, 2014 (aged 98)

Bio: Dorothy Margaret Salisbury Davis was an American crime fiction writer.

Known for:

A gentle murderer (1951)
The judas cat (1949)
A Gentleman Called (1958)
Where the Dark Streets Go (1970)
God Speed the Night (1968)

Dorothy Salisbury Davis on Wikipedia

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