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Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
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I don't write for any particular kind of person.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Kind
Particular
Persons
Writing
Particular Kind
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We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Fronts
Lying
Lie
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I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Book
Finished
Knows
Titles
Title
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Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Looking Back
Teaching
Writing
Myself Looking Back Looking
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I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Garden
People
Young
People Young Young People
Passionately
Young People
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Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Doe
Fun
Risk
Risk-taking
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It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Moving
Sensible
Towns
Everywhere
Seemed
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I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Code
Enemy
Found
Recently
Signs
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I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Girl
Men
Intelligent
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I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Imagination
Appearance
Julia
Reader
Appearances
Deliberately
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They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Disappointment
Enchanting
May
Surprise
Perhaps
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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Marriage
Divorce
Easier
Fifty
Years
Years Ago
Work Marriage People
Marriage Work
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Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Change
Men
Example
Games
Manage
Subtlety
Rules
Requires
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Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Marriage
Judged
Knows
Persons
Separately
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Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Running
Car
Lovely
Years
Years Ago
Afford
Cottage
Edge
Twenty
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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Children
Growing Up
Stopping
Thinking
Grow Up
Grown
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Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Conception
People
Persons
Variety
Love People Person
Happier
Quite A Lot
Spared
Unimaginative
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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Challenges
Countryside
People
Threatening
Aspects
Challenge
Exists
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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Science
Finishing
Mother
School
Badly
Domestic
Sent
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Marriage
Father
Mother
Soldier
Counted
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You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Persuade
Suggestion
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My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
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Husband
Needed
Taken
Thinking
Ahead
Make Up
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A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
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Boring
Florida
Jolly
People
They Say
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In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Friends
Important
My Best Friend
University
Vocabulary
Eighties
Fifties
Terribly
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It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
France
Languages
Italy
Local
Travels
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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Respect
Animal
Children
Cities
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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Cities
Eggs
Meat
Milk
Stones
Throwing
Towns
Animals
Explained
Farm
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Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Book
Celebration
Imaginary
Real
Scenery
Writing
Life Experience Me
Reminded
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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Courage
Men
Battle
Children
Courageous
Husband
Illness
Long Term
Men Women Brave
Courage Men Women
Lots
Braver
Facing
Courage Women Men
Husbands
Immediately
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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
Mary Wesley / Novelist
Imagination
Fallen
Falling In Love
Love Is
Play
Life Love Love Is
All My Life
Falling
Frequently
Worse
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