Marah Ellis Ryan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat ...
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Few questions make long friends in the hills.
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with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills the saplings with fresh vitality sends through human veins a creeping ecstasy of new life.
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the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.
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Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!
-- Marah Ellis Ryan
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
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I want to have the memories of my time with you to keep me warm.
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I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
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