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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.
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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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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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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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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To dispair is to turn your back on God.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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