Amanda McKittrick Ros quotes
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“I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.”
-- Amanda McKittrick RosSource : Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr
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“Hope sinks a world of imagination.”
-- Amanda McKittrick RosSource : Amanda McKittrick Ros (2012). “Irene Iddesleigh”, p.124, The Floating Press
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“My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.”
-- Amanda McKittrick RosSource : Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr
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“I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.”
-- Amanda McKittrick RosSource : Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr
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“Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?”
-- Amanda McKittrick Ros
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”
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“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”
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“I even love the smell of books.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 43), 1937.
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Source : Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”
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