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“Reflect that you could have written the book so much better yourself, if only you had the time and the inclination for the task; and that the literate won't be listening, if you're speaking on air, or doing more than glance at your review, if it appears in print; and go right ahead! There will be no reprisals. If the author is young and struggling, he won't dare to expose your pretensions; and if he is well established he won't think it worth while to do so.”
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“I think the hardest thing of all is to be wise in our dealings with the people we love,’ he said. ‘I know I have found it so.”
― An Infamous Army
― An Infamous Army
“Like her, he spoke very little. It wasn't that he didn't have thoughts or feelings. If anything, he had too many of them. He didn't have a quiet head.”
― The Garden of Letters
― The Garden of Letters
“Mira thought she had come home to her countrymen and to her remaining family, but in fact, she had come home to a country torn apart by civil war and into a city about to become the center of the most devastating war the Jews had ever known.”
― The Work of Thy Hand A Novel of Early Christianity
― The Work of Thy Hand A Novel of Early Christianity
“Lady Cinderford,’ said the Dowager, referring to her widowed sister-in-law in accents of loathing, ‘will act as hostess at Stanyon over my dead body!’
‘That would be something quite out of the ordinary way,’ murmured the Earl.”
― The Quiet Gentleman
‘That would be something quite out of the ordinary way,’ murmured the Earl.”
― The Quiet Gentleman
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