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Margaret Halsey
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“Americans (I, I’m afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they’re tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, "You ought to be in pictures." But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.”
Margaret Halsey (1910–1997) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944) p. 94
“The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality.”
Margaret Halsey (1910–1997) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a WASP (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1977) ch. 5, p. 132
“Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.”
Margaret Halsey (1910–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid, but exquisitely beautiful wife.”
Margaret Halsey (1910–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living in England is curing me with almost alarming rapidity of being shy. Even with the Olympians, there is no need to worry about appearing stupid, because it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.”
Margaret Halsey (1910–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source