Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on. Mary Ann Shaffer More Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer More Quotes From Mary Ann Shaffer This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. Mary Ann Shaffer ruins dignity obsession When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am. Mary Ann Shaffer sea writing morning But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren't - they're witty. I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. Mary Ann Shaffer witty book thinking Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment. Mary Ann Shaffer unlikely passion disappointment I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems like my whole life has come into being in the last twenty-four hours. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it Mary Ann Shaffer lasts forever thinking Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable. Mary Ann Shaffer humour unbearable way Reading keeps you from going ga-ga. Mary Ann Shaffer reading Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. Mary Ann Shaffer stomping ice believe After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. Mary Ann Shaffer good-enough be-good austen I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true. Mary Ann Shaffer suitors book thinking I much prefer whining to counting my blessings. Mary Ann Shaffer whining counting blessing We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. Mary Ann Shaffer book Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes. Mary Ann Shaffer tubas flutes gentleman Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then. Mary Ann Shaffer missing baby way If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor Mary Ann Shaffer concentration devil survivor Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. Mary Ann Shaffer grace names thinking Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. Mary Ann Shaffer be-kind cry kind Moses: God or crowd control?!? Mary Ann Shaffer moses crowds one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now Mary Ann Shaffer wife husband years In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown Mary Ann Shaffer bad-mood gold hair
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