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The Daughter of Time (1951)
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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 truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
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In hospitals there was no time off for good behavior.
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It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.
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Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Josephine Tey
Born:
July 25, 1896
Died:
February 13, 1952
(aged 55)
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