Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes

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Nebraska was favored of the gods. Ceres' throne was in Nebraska. It was as though she chose the state from all others upon which to lavish her goods, — as though the bulk of her fortune had been given to a favorite child.

Bess Streeter Aldrich
It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.

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Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

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You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

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Not all clever words are true.... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

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Thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

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They are the most painful tears in the world... the tears of the aged... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

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Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. Even though you grew up and found you could never quite bring back the magic feeling of this night, the melody would stay in your heart always — a song for all the years.

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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

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You were courted and got married in the magic world, but you had your baby in the real one.

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When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

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Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

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Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

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Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.

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Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

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I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty... and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes.... I think that is what love is to a woman... a lantern in her hand.

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For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...

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Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

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The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea.

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