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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
Reading
Going
Keeps

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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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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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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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Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
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We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
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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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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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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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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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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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Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
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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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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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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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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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Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
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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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This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
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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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