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Josephine Tey - Brat Farrar (1949)

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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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Charles loathed horses; which he held to be animals of an invincible stupidity, uncontrolled imagination, and faulty deduction.

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Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

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Riches... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do.... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

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Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey

Born: July 25, 1896
Died: February 13, 1952 (aged 55)
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