Ellen Raskin Quotes
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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
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Smiling without good reason is demeaning.
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Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!
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I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.
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She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.
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Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.
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Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.
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Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
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You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
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Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler.
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I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don’t have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that’s what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to get into medical school.
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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric.
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Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.
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I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.
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The sun sets in the west just about everyone knows that, but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
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Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.
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You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game.
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In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.