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She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!
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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What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!
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I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.
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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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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.
Mary Ann Shaffer
This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
Mary Ann Shaffer
I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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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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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The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.
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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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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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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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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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Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
Mary Ann Shaffer
Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
Mary Ann Shaffer
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann Shaffer
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
Mary Ann Shaffer
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren't - they're witty. I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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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