Josephine Tey - People Quotes

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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.

Josephine Tey

Her talent lay exclusively in seeing that other people employed theirs.

Josephine Tey

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

Josephine Tey