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Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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Mary Ann Shaffer
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: December 13
Died: 2008
Died: February 16
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
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Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
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I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.
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I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
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Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had one or not? If I could believe I hada soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.
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I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.
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My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path
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I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.
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Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
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In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown
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Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.
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I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
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Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
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Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
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Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.
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This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
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Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.
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What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
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Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - When adding eggs, break the shells first.
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