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the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.


Anne Enright

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Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
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ASSEGID HABTEWOLD ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
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"I know t...
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JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.
PAUL COLMAN ...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.
L.M. MONTGOMERY No milk," I said.

"No milk," said my sister.

I watched my dad think about this...
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I frown in confusi...
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"That expression has never made sense to m...
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"Meaning, ...
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And hated my black face.
They took one look at me,
And deci...
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KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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SUE BIRD Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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HANNAH TUNNICLIFFE On this one, it is hard to read the tea leaves,
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I'm not some fantasy
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or who ...
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Or st...
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and drink clam chowder,
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ANNE FRANK I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
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Should never crave the rose.
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Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
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meanwhile in my head
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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.
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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 I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
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ANNE MCCAFFREY Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ...
ANNE RAVER Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than a...
ANNE FRANK Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent t...
ANNE TUCKER Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.
ANNE HECHE Sex is a short cut to everything.
ANNE CUMMING Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
ANNE FRANK When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and o...
ANNE LAMOTT A hundred years from now? All new people.
ANNE LAMOTT Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to...
ANNE LAMOTT Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
ANNE LAMOTT I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
ANNE LAMOTT You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all...
ANNE LAMOTT [Lamott is an unstoppable storyteller, whether writing about church-going with a sullen adolescent o...
ANNE LAMOTT We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on ...
ANNE LAMOTT If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit r...
ANNE PERRY 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