You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there. - Josephine Tey - Quotesmemo.com

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To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

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Josephine Tey

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Denial, Life, Pretending, Tails, Tied, Tin Cans

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The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

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Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

Gambling, Horse, Horses, Men

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me. " It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

Admires, Real, Thinking, Utterly, Vanity

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Came, Common, Common Sense, Nothing, Sense

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

Anyways, Book, Books, People, Write, Writing

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