Helen Hooven Santmyer

(1895–1986) Writer

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Helen Hooven Santmyer was a writer.

Quick Facts About Helen Hooven Santmyer

Born: November 25, 1895
Died: February 21, 1986
Profession: Writer

About Helen Hooven Santmyer

[Wikidata] American novelist (1895–1986)... | [Wikipedia] Helen Hooven Santmyer was an American writer, educator, and librarian. She is primarily known for her best-selling epic "...And Ladies of the Club", published when she was in her 80s.

Quotes by Helen Hooven Santmyer

Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hooven Santmyer

Doe

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I have no plans for the money but it'll be awfully nice to have it.

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Inspirational

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But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough.

Helen Hooven Santmyer

Believe

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“When we get presidents with brains it's purely by accident. Who was ever selected for his brains? We choose them for other…

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[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

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Accordions

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“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories…

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Long time

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“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the…

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Human life

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“But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.”

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