Mary Ann Shaffer Quotes
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I don't want to be married just to be married. ...
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Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
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Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
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I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems…
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But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that…
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I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
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I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables…
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When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim.…
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Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
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Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
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That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,…
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I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side with... visitors offering…
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Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My…
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Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right. ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
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I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
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Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the…
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It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want…
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I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone…
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