Margaret Millar Quotes

#1. The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.

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#2. 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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#3. People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

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#4. 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.

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#5. The rest of us have monsters too, but we must call them by other names, or pretend they don't exist...

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#6. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

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#7. You have a low opinion of yourself, Helen."
"I wasn't born with it."
"Where did you get it?"
'The story" she said, "is too long to tell, and too dull to listen to.

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#8. Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

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#9. When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

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#10. Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

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#11. 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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#12. Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

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#13. The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

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

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#15. I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

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#16. Shrews are made, not born.

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#17. There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

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#18. You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

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#19. 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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#20. Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

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#21. The sun was shining like a congratulation.

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#22. Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

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#23. You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.

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#24. The smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

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#25. Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

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#26. I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

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#27. 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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#28. Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

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#29. When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

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#30. Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

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