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The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to — to mould them over a little.
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The builder had lacked an architect's eye. He had used the idiom of the time, but it had apparently not been native to him.
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The sorrows of humanity are no one's sorrows.... A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
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The lawyer hummed and hawed, not because he had any real objections but because it is a lawyer's business to consider remote contingencies, and a straightforward agreement to anything would be wildly unprofessional.
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His wife had once shown him a bit in the Mail that said whistling was the sign of an empty mind. But it hadn't cured him.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Josephine Tey
Born:
July 25, 1896
Died:
February 13, 1952
(aged 55)
Bio:
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh, a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays, many with biblical or historical themes.
Known for:
The Daughter of Time (1951)
Brat Farrar (1949)
The Franchise Affair (1948)
The man in the queue (1929)
The singing sands (1952)
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