Emily M. Danforth famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.
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In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.
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But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.
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How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?
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I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.
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You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.
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Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.
-- Emily M. Danforth
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I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
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One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
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You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.
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I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.
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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
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