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If she didn't soon have a book in her hands, if she couldn't soon read a book, she'd die.
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I think about death every day. What it would be like, and why it would happen to me. I think we ought to think about it. I suppose that what I really think is that it would be humiliating to be afraid of it.
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They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself...
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Americans... are a nation of salesmen just as the English are a nation of small shopkeepers.
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If life has taught me anything it's that while most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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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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