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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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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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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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I love pretty things and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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To dispair is to turn your back on God.
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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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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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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