"Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was……" — Mary Ann Shaffer
"Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment."
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Mary Ann Shaffer
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56 Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to…
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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…
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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…
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I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side…
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More Disappointment Quotes
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I…
— Christian Bale
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
— Joseph Addison
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
— Michael Bergin
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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