"Those times, I tried to think of something……" — Mary Ann Shaffer
"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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Mary Ann Shaffer
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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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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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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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More Happy Quotes
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
— Richard Bach
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as…
— Fred Armisen
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except…
— David Attenborough
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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