Mary Ann Shaffer Quotes

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• I don't want to be married just to be married. ...
• Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
• Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
• I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables…
• When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim.…
• Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
• Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right. ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.
• If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
• Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
• I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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