"Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate,……" — Mary Ann Shaffer
"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 flutes."
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56 Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer
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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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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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