"Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence."

-- Edward M Hays

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“Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.”
“The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychologyâ€¦ Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichÃ©s of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel Iâ€™ve read in a long time.”
“I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.”
“Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.”
“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”
“I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.”

Source : "The Rubadub Mystery". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1951.
“Either the camera will dance, or I will.”

Source : "How Astaire Works". Film and Theatre Today, (pp. 7-9), January 1950.
“A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.”

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