https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 30 May 2026 17:13:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/greenwood-kerry/83316/ https://wist.info/greenwood-kerry/83316/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:11:06 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83316 “Conversation is a minefield until you learn the conventions, Jane dear.”
“I’ll never learn all the rules,” muttered Jane.
“Yes, you will,” said Phryne. “Then you can bend them.”

Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher, Book 13, The Castlemaine Murders, ch. 4 (2003)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/greenwood-kerry/83316/feed/ 0 83316 https://wist.info/mann-abby/2659/ https://wist.info/mann-abby/2659/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=2659 HAYWOOD: There are those in our own country, too, who today speak of the protection of country, of survival. A decision must be made, in the life of every nation, at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat, when it seems the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient. To look the other way. Only the answer to that is: Survival as what?

Abby Mann (1927-2008) American screenwriter, producer [a.k.a. Abraham Goodman, Ben Goodman]
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