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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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New London
Prince Edward Island
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
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Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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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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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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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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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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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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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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