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Evelyn E. Smith
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“If you are not inherently well organized, she had learned, it is important to be as inflexible as you can.”
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“... she'd been brought up never to offend anyone unless you did it on purpose.”
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“There is no animal lazier than a cat.”
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“It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.”
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“They smiled at each other with hatred in their hearts — the normal landlord-tenant relationship in New York; perhaps the normal landlord-tenant relationship anywhere.”
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“That's always the way when you discover something new; everybody thinks you're crazy.”
Evelyn E. Smith, U.S. writer, crossword creator
(1922 - 2000)
Occasionally wrote as Delphine C. Lyons.