Margaret Millar
Margaret Millar
Margaret Ellis Millarwas an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 February 1915
CountryCanada
dream age weight
The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
congratulations shining sun
The sun was shining like a congratulation.
emotion birth primitive
the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
problem excuse manners
Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
crazy would-be culture
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.
thinking people wish
I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.
shrews made born
Shrews are made, not born.
swim trouble
You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.
play acting good-marriage
Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.
common-sense sparks genius
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
spring past air
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
believe giving three
When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
exhibitionist exes
There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.
violence response
Violence is the instinctive response to fear.