"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad…" — Mary Ann Shaffer
"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."
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56 Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer has 56 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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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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Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops…
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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