Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuablerecovered and assimilated from the dust.
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This quote is just one of 8 total Margery Allingham quotes in our collection. Margery Allingham is known for saying 'Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.' as well as some of the following quotes.
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.
This quote is just one of 8 total Margery Allingham quotes in our collection. Margery Allingham is known for saying 'Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.' as well as some of the following quotes.