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It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.
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Always on Monday morning the press reports God as revealed to His vicars in various guises — Benevolent, stormy, patient, or out of sorts. God knows which God is the God God recognizes.
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I am he
Who champions total liberty —
Intolerance being, ma'am, a state
No tolerant man can tolerate.
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There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
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Relations are errors that Nature makes.
Your spouse you can put on the shelf.
But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes
You always commit yourself.
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A successful party is a creative act, and creation is always painful.
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Oh, shun, lad, the life of an author.
It's nothing but worry and waste.
Avoid that utensil,
The laboring pencil,
And pick up the scissors and paste.
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Let others deck them as they please
In frill and furbelow.
She scorns alike the fripperies
Of flowers and of snow.
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For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
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Mere wealth, I am above it,
It is the reputation wide,
The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride
That eagerly I covet.
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Let others, worn with living
And living's aftermath,
Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress,
Take Love to be their comfortress,
Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress,
But I shall take a Bath.
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.
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The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
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Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
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Phyllis McGinley
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Born:
March 21, 1905
Died:
February 22, 1978
(aged 72)
Bio:
Phyllis McGinley was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life.
Known for:
Saint-watching (1969)
The plain princess (1945)
The Most Wonderful Doll in the World (1950)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1956)
A pocketful of wry (1940)
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