Mary Ann Shaffer Short Quotes

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Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Mary Ann Shaffer
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

Mary Ann Shaffer
This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

Mary Ann Shaffer
People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can — just like mad dogs.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

Mary Ann Shaffer
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

Mary Ann Shaffer
In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

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Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right.... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.

Mary Ann Shaffer
What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Miss X has always been a ditherer — she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

Mary Ann Shaffer
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

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I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.

Mary Ann Shaffer
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Mary Ann Shaffer