Margaret Voss

Events in the Past May Be Roughly Divided Into Those Which Probably Never Happened and Those Which Do Not Matter

Mar 17, 2026 7 min read

They Eked Out a Precarious Livelihood by Taking in Each Other’s Washing

Mar 17, 2026 8 min read

A Reader Lives a Thousand Lives Before He Dies. The Man Who Never Reads Lives Only One

Mar 17, 2026 7 min read

Fear Defeats More People than Any Other One Thing in the World

Mar 17, 2026 10 min read

I Have a Higher and Grander Standard of Principle. Washington Could Not Lie. I Can Lie, But I Won’t

Mar 17, 2026 11 min read

But In Analysing History Do Not Be Too Profound, for Often the Causes Are Quite Superficial

Mar 17, 2026 7 min read

When Is a Mouse If It Spins? Because the Higher It Gets the Fewer

Mar 17, 2026 8 min read

The Suspense in a Novel Is Not Only in the Reader, But in the Novelist Himself, Who Is Intensely Curious Too About What Will Happen To the Hero

Mar 17, 2026 8 min read

Drama Is Life with the Dull Bits Cut Out

Alfred Hitchcock

Mar 17, 2026 7 min read

Old Eyesore Gone At Last

Mar 17, 2026 8 min read