Annie Fellows Johnston quotes
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“The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.'”
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“Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.”
-- Annie Fellows JohnstonSource : Annie Fellows Johnston (1909). “The Jester's Sword: How Aldebaran, the King's Son, Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest”
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“The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.”
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“That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.”
-- Annie Fellows JohnstonSource : Annie Fellows Johnston (1912). “Mary Ware's Promised Land”, p.133, Pelican Publishing
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“we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.”
-- Annie Fellows JohnstonSource : Annie Fellows Johnston (1919). “The Little Colonel's House Party”
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“I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.”
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“I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.”
-- Annie Fellows JohnstonSource : Annie Fellows Johnston (1901). “The Little Colonel's House Party”, p.183, Pelican Publishing
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“To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.”
-- Annie Fellows JohnstonSource : Annie Fellows Johnston (1914). “Mary Ware: The Little Colonel's Chum”, p.34, Pelican Publishing
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Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54
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“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.”
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“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”
Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber
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Source : Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381
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