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Ruth Rendell
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Ruth Rendell
Age: 85 †
Born: 1930
Born: February 17
Died: 2015
Died: May 2
Baroness Rendell Of Babergh
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
Ruth Grasemann
Barbara Vine
Baroness Rendell of Babergh
Ruth Barbara Grasemann
Ruth Barbara Rendell
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They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.
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we dislike those we've injured.
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Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.
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I get a lot of letters from people. They say I want to be a writer. What should I do? I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
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The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.
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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
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I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
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We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?
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I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
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I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
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We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.
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Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
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The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
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The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
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Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
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While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
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the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.
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Nobody really lives in the present.
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Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
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there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.
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