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Josephine Tey - 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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Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey

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