9 Quotes & Sayings By Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys was born in 1909 in San Francisco, California. She wrote stories and sold them to the local newspapers while she was still in school. At age 18 she became a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Two years later she became the editor of the San Francisco News, where she worked until her marriage at age 30 Read more

The next year she joined the staff of the Oakland Tribune, where she wrote both news and feature articles. These early career experiences helped shape her writing style. Humphreys' first novel, The Man in Room 13, became so well received in 1939 that it was made into a movie starring Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner.

Her second book, The Judge's House, was made into a television series starring Robert Young in 1950. Humphreys also published two books of short stories in addition to her novels, which are all historical romances set in California during the 1870s and 1880s. She died in 1972 at the age of sixty-six

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve...
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You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in. Josephine Humphreys
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of...
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You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. Josephine Humphreys
People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples...
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People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them. Josephine Humphreys
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When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves. Josephine Humphreys
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Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet into the world, girls who kept themselves apart from the world without really knowing what for. Now girls know what for. They menstruate when they are ten, and their dolls are sluts. Josephine Humphreys
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Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there. Josephine Humphreys
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Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history. Josephine Humphreys
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But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now. Josephine Humphreys