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I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
— Mary Wesley
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Mary Wesley
writer, novelist, children's writer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1912 – 2002
Mary Aline Siepmann CBE, known by the pen name Mary Wesley, was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life.
All Quotes by Mary Wesley
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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
— Mary Wesley
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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
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Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
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Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
— Mary Wesley