Jacqueline Winspear Quotes

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• Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Messengers, Coincidence

  Jacqueline Winspear (2011). “Maisie Dobbs Bundle #2, An Incomplete Revenge and Among the Mad: Books 5 and 6”, p.31, Henry Holt and Company

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• Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

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  Life, Hero, Uniforms

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.171, Soho Press

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• One always has riches when one has a book to read.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Book, Riches

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• Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

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  Trouble, Teach

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.73, Soho Press

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• Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Memories, Chains That Bind, Links

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• Never judge a journey by the distance.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Distance, Journey, Judging

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• Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Doe

  Jacqueline Winspear (2012). “Elegy for Eddie”, p.246, Allison & Busby

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• Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Missing

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.26, Soho Press

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• It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

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  Moving, Time To Move On

  Jacqueline Winspear (2010). “Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel”, p.282, Macmillan

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• a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Thinking, Answers, Testing

  Jacqueline Winspear (2010). “Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

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  Time, Art, Art Of Living

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.154, Soho Press

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• I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Heart, Jewels, Leaving

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• If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the First World War. And I mean, there was a connection there. He was, indeed, Queen Victoria's grandson. You know, they were all related, all these royal families.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Running, Queens, War

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

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  Moving, Heartfelt, Mountain

  Jacqueline Winspear (2004). “Birds of a Feather”, p.167, Soho Press

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• What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

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  Moving, Interesting, Landscape

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• It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Believe, Thinking, Anchors

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

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  Thinking, People, Intuition

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• She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Helping Others, Nurse

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• if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Time, Editors, Way

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• in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Hope, War, Thinking

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• What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.

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  War, Past, Historical

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

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  Dream, War, Men

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• I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

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  War, Thinking, People

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• Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

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  Interesting, Eras, Certain

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