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By AnonymMary Wesley
A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
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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By AnonymMary Wesley
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
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By AnonymMary Wesley
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
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By AnonymMary Wesley
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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