"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing.……" — Margery Allingham
"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."
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Margery Allingham
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23 Quotes by Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham has 23 quotes on this site.
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Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of…
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding…
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A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock…
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The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct…
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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang…
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But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls…
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work…
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There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
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Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years…
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I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have…
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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I…
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
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More Assimilated Quotes
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
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Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part…
— Bertrand Russell
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their…
— Nadia Boulanger
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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
— Anton Yelchin
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you…
— Camilla Gibb
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these…
— Jeremy Silman
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