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I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.
Mary Stewart
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Mary Stewart
Age: 97 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 17
Died: 2014
Died: May 9
Gymnastics Teacher
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the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.
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The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
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Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.
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Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.
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I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.
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Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything you cannot have more.
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