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One doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable. And danger gives the greatest depths of all.

Helen MacInnes

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

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The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

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And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

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But how meager one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts.... And the last, most complete, reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

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Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

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Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is — and that is, meaningless.

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The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

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Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

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Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Helen MacInnes

Helen MacInnes

Helen MacInnes

Born: October 7, 1907

Died: September 20, 1985 (aged 77)

Bio: Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels.

Known for:

Decision at Delphi (1960)
Above Suspicion (1941)
While Still We Live (1944)
North from Rome (1958)
The Double Image (1966)

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