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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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Prince Edward Island
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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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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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
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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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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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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 another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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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.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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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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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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