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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

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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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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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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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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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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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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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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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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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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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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