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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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I've a pocket full of dreams to sell, said Teddy, whimsically,... What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?
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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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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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…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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