Patricia Moyes Quotes

• A menudo es interesante, en retrospectiva, considerar las causas insignificantes que conducen a grandes acontecimientos. Un encuentro casual, un comentario irreflexivo... y la tortuosa reacción en cadena de la coincidencia se pone en marcha, conduciendo con tortuosa inevitabilidad a algún clímax resonante.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

  Patricia Moyes

  Women, Passion, People

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Mutual Benefit, Two

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• Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Sea, Hints, Far Away

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• I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Few Words, Greetings

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• I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

  Patricia Moyes

  Believe, Cat, Teach

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• Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

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  Country, Autumn, Garden

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• one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

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  People, Age, Grows

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• Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

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  Frustrated, Bricks, Journalism

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• Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

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  Brutality, Sometimes, Easier

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• suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

  Patricia Moyes

  Suicide, Revenge, Leaving

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• The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

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  Building, Inevitable, Shrinkage

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• it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

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  Cat, Winning, Talking

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