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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
Dorothy Dunnett
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
Dorothy Dunnett
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
Dorothy Dunnett
I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
Dorothy Dunnett
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
Dorothy Dunnett
Today,' said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.
Dorothy Dunnett
I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk-just once-in prose like other people.
Dorothy Dunnett
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got' me,” he said.
Dorothy Dunnett
It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
Dorothy Dunnett