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Mary Stewart, a British novelist, was born on September 17, 1916, and passed away on May 9, 2014. Known for her suspense, historical, and romance novels, her works have enjoyed great popularity among readers.

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Famous Mary Stewart Quotes

“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.”

Trying Art Whole Past Difficult Water Powerful Casts Fishing Attempting Fascination Faded

Author:Mary Stewart

“Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.”

Knows Trying Stills Moments Shows Happens Moving Grief Tragedy Remakes

Book:Nine Coaches Waiting

Source: Nine Coaches Waiting

“To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again”

Trying Years Long Made Soul Age Remember Turns Sleep Silence Air Youth Wings Fingers Resignation Thoughts On Life Clumsy Calculating Drowsy Fledglings Long Silence Long Sleep

Book:Hollow Hills

Source: Hollow Hills

“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”

Knows Trying Essence Useless

Book:The Last Enchantment

Source: The Last Enchantment

About the Author

Born: September 17, 1916
Died: May 9, 2014
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 73

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