Mary Beth
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“If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.”
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
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“I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.”
― Five Dialogues
― Five Dialogues
“I set fire to his bed one night while he was in it. I’d be obliged if you wouldn’t mention that, though, as they never found out who did it, but the police got involved and things were rather unpleasant at school for a while.”
― The Incident at Fives Castle
― The Incident at Fives Castle
“The woman’s brain has two hemispheres,” she slurred. “One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.”
― The Merry Misogynist
― The Merry Misogynist
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