Margaret Halsey was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Toward Some grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies.
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“The people who say you are not facing realityactually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality.Reality is above all else a variable.With a firm enough commitment,you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.”
“Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to see mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.”