"Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men."

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Source : Josephine Tey (1954). “Three by Tey”

Josephine Tey

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“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.”
“I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name”
“We canâ€™t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what weâ€™re here for, how to live more poetically.”
“When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.”
“Above all, art should be fun.”
“Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.”
“I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.”
“When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.”

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