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    American writer (1910-1997)

    Margaret Halseywas an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Toward Somegrew out of her experiences there.

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    About the Margaret Halsey

    Margaret Halseywas an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Toward Somegrew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

    According to her obituary in The New York Times, she was “a witty writer with an acute social concern, [and] was compared to Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken”.

    Several of her books were controversial or took on controversial subjects. She wrote two books inspired by her experiences volunteering as a hostess at the racially-integrated Stage Door Canteen in Times Square: a novel, Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers, and Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the Negro. The latter was banned in Georgia and favorably reviewed by Margaret Mead.The Pseudo-Ethic: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals was a defense of Alger Hiss.

    9 Quotes by Margaret Halsey

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      The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)

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      The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

      Margaret Halsey

      American writer (1910-1997)