Vera Caspary Quotes

#1. Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.

M.J. Rose

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

Vera Caspary

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

Vera Caspary

#4. We decorate our rooms with our dreams for the future,

Jeffrey Reddick

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

Vera Caspary

#6. Are you insane?"
"I know. I know what you're thinking, but I had to. It was The One. And I was right! I haven't seen one since that was as perfect as this one!

Jamie McGuire

#7. Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

Edmond De Goncourt

#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. 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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#10. Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down

Peter Kay

#11. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet. The

G.K. Chesterton

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

Vera Caspary

#13. You are a curse in my life!

Charles Perrault

#14. Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

Dalia Mogahed

#15. I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Evelyn Glennie

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

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#18. 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.

Vera Caspary

#19. 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.

Vera Caspary