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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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You see, she concluded miserably, when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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