Margaret Culkin Banning Quotes

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She usually got a head start on the day before it knew she was in a race with it.

Margaret Culkin Banning
Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

Margaret Culkin Banning
It isn't easy to be a person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

Margaret Culkin Banning
Sentences that begin with 'all women' are never, never true.

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She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Margaret Culkin Banning
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

Margaret Culkin Banning
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.

Margaret Culkin Banning
When she got around to it she would entertain age pleasantly, just as she had put many another awkward guest at ease in her house.

Margaret Culkin Banning
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Margaret Culkin Banning