Margaret Millar Quotes

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If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Margaret Millar
One drink and she was a drunk. She'd been a drunk for thirty years and didn't find it out until then.

Margaret Millar
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

Margaret Millar
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

Margaret Millar
Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

Margaret Millar
She had a point and Aragon guessed that she would cling to it even if it impaled her.

Margaret Millar
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

Margaret Millar
'Mother means to do the right thing.' Dorothy paused and let the implication go on without her, like a riderless horse: but she never does, of course.

Margaret Millar
Miriam's only fault is a habit of pushing the truth out in front of her like a wheelbarrow.

Margaret Millar
When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Margaret Millar
Day after day she dragged her trouble over to our house like a sick animal she couldn't cure, couldn't kill.

Margaret Millar