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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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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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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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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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... we always love best the people who need us.
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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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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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