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Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?
— Josephine Tey
Weak people can be very stubborn.
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Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all.
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Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
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Truth isn't in accounts but in account-books.
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But it was never possible to forget that Searle was in a room. Why? she kept asking herself. Or rather, why not?
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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.
— Josephine Tey
Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
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You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
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It is not possible to love and be wise.
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Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.
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I have a palate, Williams. A precious possession. And I have no intention of prostituting it to pickles.
— Josephine Tey
The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job,
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The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious.
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Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.
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Someone had said that if you thought about the unthinkable long enough it became quite reasonable.
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There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice something for a quiet life.
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I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.
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He is much too personable to be wholesome.
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What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.
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Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.
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One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
— Josephine Tey
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
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Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?
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Before night,' as Nanny used to say of too exuberant children.
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It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then.
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After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.
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In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
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A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
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