"All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries.……" — Sophie Hannah
"All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming."
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18 Quotes by Sophie Hannah
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We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
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But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.
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Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic…
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I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin,…
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Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and…
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You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.
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Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
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Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round,…
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I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and…
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Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that…
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I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter…
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Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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