"Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both……" — Anne Perry
"Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care."
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25 Quotes by Anne Perry
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Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path,…
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The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
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I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it…
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... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather…
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in…
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What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the…
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I…
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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of…
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I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
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I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a…
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I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on…
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The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss…
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