Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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Tell the truth.
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
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Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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Tell my friends to get me out of here.
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Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.
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No one ever dies an atheist.
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Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
