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Amanda McKittrick Ros
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“Hope sinks a world of imagination.”
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“I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.”
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“I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.”
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“My works are all expressly my own — pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.”
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“[On visiting Westminster Abbey:] Holy Moses! Have a look! / Flesh decayed in every nook! / Some rare bits of brain lie here, / Mortal loads of beef and beer.”
Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish novelist, poet
(1860 - 1939)
Full name: Anna Margaret McKittrick Ross.