“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“A good logger does not raze the forest, but only thins it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making.
"But you never complain."
'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“the wilderness. Who in his right mind would not want someone to take care of these unpalatable household tasks?”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
LaVyrle Spencer
Born place: in Browerville, Minnesota, The United States
Born date July 17, 1943
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“I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampireville
“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of
building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well‐shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make‐believe.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Nightlife
“their bricks and I thought how the world had once been filled with these houses. I remember the first time I ever climbed a Roman staircase, and how odd it felt, and I knew that in times gone by men must have taken such things for granted. Now the world was dung and straw and damp-ridden wood. We had stone masons, of course, but it was quicker to build from wood, and the wood rotted, but no one seemed to care.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Sword Song
“The hall’s door was framed by a pair of vast curved bones that had come from some sea monster.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Burning Land
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