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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters
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Ellis Peters
Age: 82 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 28
Died: 1995
Died: October 14
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Ellis Peters
John Redfern
Jolyon Carr
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Edith Mary Pargeter
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
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If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham? Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
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the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
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You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
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