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Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.

Mary Ann Shaffer

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Mary Ann Shaffer
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: December 13
Died: 2008
Died: February 16
Librarian
Novelist
Writer
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Keeps
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Going

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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.
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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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Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
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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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I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.
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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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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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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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We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
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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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Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
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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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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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This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
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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)!
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I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
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My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path
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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 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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