I hated the Graham School. It was the most terrifying place I've ever been in. They would yell at you and humiliate you, but [the dancing] was just amazingly pretty.


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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridicu...
ANNE SULLIVAN
As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
ANNE SEXTON
I wish to go on living even after my death.
ANNE FRANK
You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and ...
ANNE FRANK
I think a lot, but I don't say much.
ANNE FRANK
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
ANNE FRANK
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
ANNE FRANK
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
ANNE FRANK
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
ANNE RICE
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
ANNE FRANK
All art requires courage.
ANNE TUCKER
And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the...
ANNE BRONTE
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
ANNE TYLER
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
ANNE FRANK
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my o...
ANNE FRANK
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning wit...
ANNE FRANK
I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to le...
ANNE FRANK
Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
ANNE FRANK
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
ANNE FRANK
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cun...
ANNE FRANK
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then...
ANNE FRANK
I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length o...
ANNE FRANK
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly th...
ANNE FRANK
The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
ANNE FRANK
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good ...
ANNE FRANK
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
ANNE FRANK
There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound e...
ANNE FRANK
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can...
ANNE FRANK
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build ...
ANNE FRANK
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I h...
ANNE FRANK
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of ...
ANNE FRANK
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK
I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these...
ANNE FRANK
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
ANNE FRANK
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
ANNE SEXTON
There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limi...
ANNE MCCAFFREY
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly abo...
ANNE LAMOTT
When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
ANNE BISHOP
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futi...
ANNE SULLIVAN
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, ...
ANNE LAMOTT