Mary Beth
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remember what my dear grandmother used to say in her old age; there is no joy in being the last hen in the coop.
“uncomfortably conscious that women of her age did not generally hide in cupboards drinking whisky”
― The Incident at Fives Castle
― The Incident at Fives Castle
“Thanks for all the wonderful memories. They're like something in a museum already or something preserved in amber, a little unreal, as you must have felt yourself always to me”
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
“are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”
― Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
― Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
“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
“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
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