Margaret Millar
Margaret Millar
Margaret Ellis Millarwas an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 February 1915
CountryCanada
trouble interest
Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.
swim trouble
You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.
monologues simply
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
happens life
Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
song eye darkness
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.
giving-up afterlife mind
I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.
asking ifs accidents
If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.
men perfect young
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
reading people lines
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
character known lungs
You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.
years design together
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
keys should-have civilization
Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.
spring smell rooms
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.
memories listening age
I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.