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  1. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    I shall always end my stories happily. I don't care whether it's 'true to life' or not. It's true to life as it should be, and that's a better truth than the other.
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  2. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden-only ugliness and deformity.
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  3. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor ever will pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.
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  4. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    I read a story tonight. It ended unhappily. I was wretched until I had invented a happy ending for it. I shall always end my stories happily. I don't care whether it's "true to life" or not. It's true to life as it should be and that's a better truth than the other.
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  5. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    You will go far beyond what I have done - you can create - I can only build with the materials others have made. But we builders have our place - we can make temples for our gods and goddesses if nothing else.
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  6. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.
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  7. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?
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  8. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    ...but it seems to me there is something beyond words--any words--all words--something that always escapes you when you try to grasp it--and yet leaves something in your hand which you wouldn't have had if you hadn't reached for it.
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  9. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.
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  10. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are having a jamboree behind the wainscot.
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  11. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    {Ilse} was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.
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  12. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story--it's a machine. It creaks. It never made me forget for one instant that it was a story. Hence it isn't a story."
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