Margaret Culkin Banning quotes
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“Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard”
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“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.”
-- Margaret Culkin BanningSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.”
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“It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”
-- Margaret Culkin BanningSource : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
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“Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.”
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“I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?”
-- Margaret Culkin BanningSource : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
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“Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.”
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“You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?”
-- Margaret Culkin BanningSource : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
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“I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.”
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“What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.”
-- Margaret Culkin Banning
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