The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels … - Margaret Halsey

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I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

Margaret Halsey

The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

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