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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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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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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life there were to be future summers for the little stone house meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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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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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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