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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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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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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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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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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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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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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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