"The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable."

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Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

Margery Allingham

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“Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.”
“The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.”
“Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.”

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“Structure builds minds into great Monuments.”
“I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.”
“I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.”
“I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.ï¿½Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.ï¿½But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.”
“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.”

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