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My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.


Anne Fadiman

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ANNE BYRHHE In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
ANNE RICE If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other peo...
ANNE FRANK And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
ANNE RIDLER Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
ANNE RICE Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
ANNE RICE And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the i...
ANNE FRANK You can plant a dream.
ANNE CAMPBELL It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.
ANNE SEXTON The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thing...
ANNE SMEDLEY It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible...
ANNE FRANK I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at hear...
ANNE FRANK I see the eight of us with our 'Secret Annexe' as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surround...
ANNE FRANK Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER