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My pen shall heal, not hurt.

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
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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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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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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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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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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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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…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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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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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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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
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