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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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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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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Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.
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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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Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This." I said. And then I kissed him.
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A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
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I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.
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She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."
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There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
