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Grief can sometimes only be expressed in platitudes. We are original in our happy moments. Sorrow has only one voice, one cry.

Ruth Rendell

'You don't know what we want,' said Troth in that tone of cunning triumph a stupid man uses when he thinks he has got the better of an adversary.

Ruth Rendell

It's living — a broad spectrum of living — that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

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It was the sort of voice you'd like to read you a story before you went to sleep.

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It is not so much true that all the world loves a lover as that a lover loves all the world.

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There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

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These days I'm quite content, you know, with everything. I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

Ruth Rendell

She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.

Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell

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Born: February 17, 1930

Died: May 2, 2015 (aged 85)

Bio: Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

Known for:

From Doon with Death (1964)
Dark Corners (2015)
A Judgement in Stone (1977)
The Girl Next Door (2014)
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986)

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