3 Quotes & Sayings By Helen Macinnes

Helen MacInnes is the author of five bestselling novels, including The House at Riverton. Her writing has been described by the Sunday Times as "a delicious mix of intrigue, romance and suspense with a dash of horror." She lives with her husband in Hampshire, England.

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I sometimes think that normal, everyday life is only a delusion. We walk on a think crust of earth which we call peace; and every now and again we can hear a rumble below our feet; and sometimes the crust splits and we see that, underneath there is a glowing inferno ready to erupt. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, but it is always there. Helen MacInnes
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Americans by the very nature of the soft fat they collected around their brains along with all of their comforts, their total ignorance of historical meanings, their delusion that anarchists were either comic little men plotting nothings in a dark cellar or misunderstood cranks--how could Americans be taken seriously in a world of real politics? Helen MacInnes