Dorothy Canfield Fisher Short Quotes

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Gossip…is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

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You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

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Help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

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I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

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Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

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What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

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Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

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The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

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You are dipped up from the great river of consciousness, and death only pours you back.

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What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars... and know which they are?

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Mamma was a crackerjack of a business woman. The kind that'd make money if you let her down a well.

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Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

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The classroom in the modern city child's life is the only equivalent for what used to be 'his community.'

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

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The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

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He was impelled, by the fatality that hangs over people who have struck a false note, to strike it yet more loudly.

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Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

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Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.

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There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody.... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

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You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows! But it's not. It's wings! Wings

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There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

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The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

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On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

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