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Margery Allingham
English
Writer
About the author
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Margery Allingham,
English
Writer
#Quiet
#Intuition
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
Margery Allingham,
English
Writer
#Man
#Police
#Remarkable
#Blood
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham,
English
Writer
#Attention
I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham,
English
Writer
#People
#Needs
#Nature
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.
Margery Allingham,
English
Writer
#Mourning
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
Margery Allingham,
English
Writer
#May
#Tea
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Margery Allingham,
English
Writer
#Mind
#Optimism