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Diana Norman
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“Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.”
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“Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.”
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“Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security — at least the magistrate addresses you by name.”
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“Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.”
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“[On Aphra Behn:] Like all women who break out of the stereotype she was subjected to the process that begins with detraction and ends in oblivion.”
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“God who gave me brains will surely give me bread.”
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“Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.”
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“... the possession of power brings on madness.”
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“They destroyed what I was, they shall endure what I have become.”
Diana Norman, English writer
(1935)