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“Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.”

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Nancy Pickard, born in September 1945, is a renowned American novelist known for her suspense and crime novels. Her works have won wide acclaim for their intricate plots and complex character development. more

“Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.”

People Knows Believe Long Helping Problem Care Earth Suffering Asks Waiting Religious Talking Depends Blessing Angel Rounds Don't Believe Don't Care Fashionable Trendy Hovering Tinkerbell

Author:Nancy Pickard

“Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.”

Art Matter Sides Periods Art Is Tragedy Impact Insight Contradiction Satisfying Great Art Disturbing Presenting

Author:Pauli Murray

“Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.”

Has Beens Found Sex Black Barriers Twins Bias Black Women Jane Crow Immorality Formidable Jim Crow Racial Bias

Author:Pauli Murray

“I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.”

Inevitable Unfair

Book:A Shilling for Candles

Source: A Shilling for Candles

“You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.”

Denial Pretending Tied Tails Tin Tin Cans

Book:The Franchise Affair

Source: The Franchise Affair

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

Men Horse Instinct Gambling Betting Horse Sense

Book:Three by Tey

Source: Three by Tey

“That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.”

Way Together Left Grief Months Warning Sunlight

Book:The Singing Sands

Source: The Singing Sands

“It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.”

Use Language Speech Trade Pleasant Shops Jargon

Book:The Daughter of Time

Source: The Daughter of Time

“There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.”

People Writing Matter Interest Cities Letters Police Satisfaction Stranger Newspapers Council Interest In Life City Council

Book:The Singing Sands

Source: The Singing Sands

“Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!”

Feels Writing Long Ideas Body Natural Duty Safe Paper Letters Busy Kicks Odds Interfere Idle Outlets Obscene Pompous Depraved Crank

Author:Josephine Tey

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