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Mary McMullen
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“Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.”
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“Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.”
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“Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.”
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“I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.”
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“... you can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag — lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack ...”
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“... it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.”
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“People tend to believe accusations more than denials.”
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“... that darkest of syllables, death.”
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“... the eternal ranchouse [was] given extra length by the two-car garage facing the street (this always reminded Justin, architecturally speaking, of bare buttocks presented to one's face).”
Mary McMullen, U.S. writer
(1920 - 1986)
Real name: Mary Reilly Wilson. This popular mystery writer’s mother was popular mystery writer Helen Reilly and her sister was popular mystery writer Ursula Curtiss.