There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
BETTY MACDONALDI like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don’t care how.
More Betty MacDonald Quotes
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In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
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a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
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I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker.
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Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat.” She always tells whiners how charming they are–bullies how brave–bad sports how good–sneaks how honest!
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In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
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I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don’t care how.
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different.
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Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
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I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!
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Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.
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The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
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