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Quote by Mary Wesley

“It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.”

Quote by Mary Wesley

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Mary Wesley was a British novelist born on June 24, 1912, and passed away on December 30, 2002. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insight into human nature. more

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“Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.”

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“People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.”

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“My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.”

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“We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.”

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“I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.”

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“Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.”

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“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”

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“This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.”

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Book:A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way

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“If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.”

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Book:A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way

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“She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.”

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