Vera Caspary Quotes

• Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

  Vera Caspary

  Race, People, Language

  Vera Caspary (1964). “A chosen sparrow”

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• No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

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  Humble, Reader, Disdain

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• If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

  Vera Caspary

  Dream, Men, Would Be

  Laura ch. 2 (1943)

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• A smile couldn't be brought into court as evidence. You couldn't arrest a man because he had trembled. Brown eyes had stolen a peep at gray eyes, so what? The tone of a voice was something that died with a word.

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  Eye, Men, Voice

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• The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

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  Cat, Feet, Dancer

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• It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Luxury

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• My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

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  Night, Brave, Mind

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