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Mary Wesley

"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."

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"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."

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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."

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"A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it."

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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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"As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York."

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"I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in."

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"My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car."

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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
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