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Have you never noticed that most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness?
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Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
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Years flowed in and flowed out of his mind like tides, leaving pools of memories full of small living things.
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People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
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'For your own good.' What a ghastly phrase that was. It covered the most barbarous and inhuman cruelties ever inflicted.
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When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
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Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
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I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.
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I can't always take Emilia's word for things. Her great passion makes fires in her mind and you can't poke around until the ashes cool.
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The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
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To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.
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The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
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You can't drown your troubles... because troubles can swim.
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Sighing was, he believed, simply the act of taking in more oxygen to help the brain cope with an unusual or difficult set of circumstances.
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I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.
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He was the wren and the rain, he was the wind and the trees bending under the wind. He was split in two, the mover and the moved, the male and the female.
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The sheriff's an eager beaver who couldn't build a dam if his life depended on it.
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Harry was extremely liberal with free pills, diagnoses and advice. On occasion, he was more effective than a regular doctor, since he was unhampered by training, medical ethics or caution, and some of his cures were miraculously quick. These were the ones his friends remembered.
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Flattery was such a rare treat to Ethel that she ate it up raw like caviar.
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Mr. Goodwin was filled with the profound bitterness found only in an insomniac contemplating a sleeping fellow human.
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Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
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Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.
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The smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.
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She has the hide of a rhinoceros, as so many people do who confuse sensitivity with egocentricity.
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The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
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Margaret Millar
Born:
February 5, 1915
Died:
March 26, 1994
(aged 79)
Bio:
Margaret Ellis Millar was an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer.
Known for:
Beast in View (1955)
A Stranger In My Grave (1960)
The listening walls (1959)
Fire will Freeze (1944)
The iron gates (1945)
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