Mary Renault

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• How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
  • The King Must Die (1958)

• Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
  • The Bull from the Sea (1962)

• In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
  • The Mask of Apollo (1966)

• You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
  • The Mask of Apollo (1966)

• It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
  • The Praise Singer (1978)

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• If one examines the legend in this light, a well-defined personality emerges. It is that of a light-weight; brave and aggressive, physically tough and quick; highly sexed and rather promiscuous; touchily proud, but with a feeling for the underdog; resembling Alexander in his precocious competence, gift of leadership, and romantic sense of destiny.
  • On her portrayal of Theseus in her books.

• Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

• Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

• The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.