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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.
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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Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
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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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This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.
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Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
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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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Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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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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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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