Vera Caspary Quotes

#1. It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

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#2. Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death.

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#3. There are a lot of people who haven't got the brains for their educations.

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#4. My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

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#5. Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

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#6. Because I was moved by the sorry spectacle of a conventional young man thinking that he had become radically unconventional.

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#7. A smile couldn't be brought into court as evidence. You couldn't arrest a man because he had trembled. Brown eyes had stolen a peep at gray eyes, so what? The tone of a voice was something that died with a word.

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#8. The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

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#9. If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

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#10. Life itself is contradictory. Only death is consistent.

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