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Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
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An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
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Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want."
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celebrity
hollywood
film
movies
power
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Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity."
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Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages. ( "Elf" the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )"
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Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.
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And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas."
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tea
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Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.
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Martha Grimes |
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Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.
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As he followed Wood, Jury thought: one disappearance, two auto accident victims, one in a mental institution, one drowned. One murdered. Rackmoor, for all its bracing sea air, didn't seem the healthiest place in the British Isles.
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Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question.
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Melrose, smiling brightly at the butcher.
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Sheba, who didn't especially like me, although she did serve me cookies when I was here before. I'd managed to get rid of them. My mother's cookies had spoiled me for anyone else's. I think I crumbled up Sheba's and tossed them off the porch. "How are you, Mr. Queen? I'm real sorry to"
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Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?"."
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courage
fear
cool
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any particular idiot in mind?" "I do, indeed. If Tom was actually here on Monday, and he needed an alibi, well, man, he didn't have one!"
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Having little to do with the present, Mr. Beaton had plenty of room for the past. Oh, yes, he read the papers and knew that governments came and went ("Conservative, Labor, Sociopath," Mr. Beaton would chuckle), but that made no odds to him."
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politics
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Steptoe continued: "Yes, I had a very tasty dish of flageolet"
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mind," he said. "I'll just get it then." --
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desk's
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Martha Grimes |
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3e6c393
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Love was rather terrifying. Something so hard to find should not be so easily lost.
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Martha Grimes |
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Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
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Martha Grimes |
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It was the sort of room that made you want to stand around in it and read for the rest of your life
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Jury paused. "This is a onetime offer. It won't come again. Choose." Melrose prepared to laugh like hell, but managed only a bark. "Onetime offer? You mean if I don't take you up on either of these jobs here and now, you'l I never ask me again?" "That is correct." "Is this the most ridiculous conversation we've ever had?" "No, we've had more ridiculous."
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Melrose winced. He lived in a world of dried-up pheasant and one-liners.
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Before Ernest could start walking back the cat, Melrose put in, "But isn't it rather we who have come here, Mrs. Attaboy?" At her uncomprehending look, he plowed on. "It is their country." "What? Africa?" "If Africa were a country, the answer would be yes."
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humor
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He felt the loss of something irreplacable, as if a thief had come out of the night, velvet-gloved and softly shod, and taken whatever it was away without Jury's ever having known, and slipped through the square,
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To his horror, Melrose saw that these were name tags she was now pinning to the Attaboys' clothing and that the other guests were wearing them. To his double horror, he saw her hand closing on his lapel. He shoved it away. Her smile-mask cracked. "But everyone's wearing them just to make it easier." "I'd much rather make it harder." He walked off toward the drinks."
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It was either Kenya or staying with my nincompoop grandchildren. Ha! Leopards I'd sooner." Melrose waited for her to complete the sentence, but she was done with it."
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It's just," Bobbi whispered, "not many women your age--" "Oh. I get it. It's because I'm an old woman." Etta had raised her voice at this so that the comment sailed up and down the table, earning Bobbi North looks that implied she had just disemboweled a baby monkey on her dinner plate. She quickly turned to the old geezer on her right, realized that was not the best choice and that she was pretty much stuck with the monkey on the plate. ..
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Find her a good home, someone to take care of her. She's a little girl, Melrose. She shouldn't be spending her days at Heathrow, scanning for villains. She should be safe." The other members who were awake turned wide-eyed stares at Melrose, who was laughing so hard he was doubled up in his chair. "Just what the hell is so funny?" "Take care of her. This is Patty Haigh you're talking about. The same Patty Haigh who got through Heathrow s..
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And how did he ever think he'd get away with murdering me?" Her tone implied she must surely belong to that rare breed of mortals who must go unmurdered."
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Melrose sipped his tea and ate his bun in perfect peace. How wonderful! Solitude even at Ardry End was hard to come by. Perhaps he was fit for the life of a hermit. Give up all of his worldly possessions and go live in a hut on a shelf of rock and watch the sunrise every morning. Up before the sun! What a dreadful idea; he shuddered.
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