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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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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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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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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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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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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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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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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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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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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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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 read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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