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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
Librarian
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
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Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
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one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
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This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
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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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When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.
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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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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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Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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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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Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
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The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.
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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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Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
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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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Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.
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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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We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
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