Meandering around . . .

Today is the birthday of Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964), author. She is best known for the novel Peyton Place.

"There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth."
- Grace Metalious

"The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick."
- Grace Metalious

"To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."
- Grace Metalious

"She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death."
- Grace Metalious

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