Patricia Moyes Quotes

#1. Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

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#2. It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

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#3. Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

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#4. I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

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#5. I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

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#6. Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

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#7. The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ...

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#8. Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ...

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#9. One doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

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#10. I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

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#11. Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

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#12. Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

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