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Ruth Rendell Biography

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

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We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

Enemies, Enemy, Faces, Forget

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Book, Life Is, Reading, Say, Thing

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

Coverdale, Family, Killed, Parchman, Write, Writing

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

Character, Characters, Christies, Cutting, Insult

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

Crazy, Different, Men, Sex, Woman

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

Human, Human Nature, Psychology, Take, Trouble

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Listening, Oneself, Self, Talking

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

Ninety, Older, Periods, Taken, Two, Women

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Know, Marriage, Money, Two, Widow, Widows

The worst has happened. . . it's rather liberating.

Disaster, Happened, Liberating, Loss, Worst

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Growing, Invisible, Light, Old

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

Boots, Character, Literally, Shoes

I can't exist without books.

Book, Books, Exist, I Can

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

Car, Civilization, Thousand, Wheel, Years

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

Divert, Emotions, Names, Perfect, Real, Under

They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

Annoy, Annoying, Make, Noise, Say

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

Driven, Kill, Terrible, Thinking, Want

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Details, Honed, Jealousy, Knives

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Children, Heart, Secret, Secrets, Take

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

Best Love, Lover, Lovers, True, World, World Love

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