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Mary Wesley Quotes
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
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Money may not buy happiness, but it's better to cry in a Lamborghini
Men go shopping to buy what they need. Women go shopping to find out what they want
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When we first met, i had no idea you would be so important to me
A year from now you'll wish you started today
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When I first saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew
Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is
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If cats could talk, they wouldn't
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I never really know the title of a book until it’s finished (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn’t have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle (Mary Wesley Quotes)
A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring (Mary Wesley Quotes)
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me (Mary Wesley Quotes)
We’re all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. (Mary Wesley Quotes)
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don’t understand. (Mary Wesley Quotes)
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That’s terribly important, especially for a writer. (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school. (Mary Wesley Quotes)
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I never really know the title of a book until it’s finished (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I have a garden, and I’m passionately interested in young people (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs (Mary Wesley Quotes)
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front (Mary Wesley Quotes)
I don’t write for any particular kind of person (Mary Wesley Quotes)
We’re all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning (Mary Wesley Quotes)
You know what it’s like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don’t want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they’ll go right off and do it (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They’re often much happier, because they don’t go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love (Mary Wesley Quotes)
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don’t understand (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage (Mary Wesley Quotes)
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety (Mary Wesley Quotes)
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he’d go right ahead (Mary Wesley Quotes)
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That’s terribly important, especially for a writer (Mary Wesley Quotes)
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse (Mary Wesley Quotes)
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