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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.
--Laurie


Louisa May Alcott

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JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the c...
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ORISON SWETT MARDEN I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.
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DAVID MAMET What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they nev...
C.S. LEWIS It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
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CASSANDRA CLARE When people cannot use you,
They will call you selfish and mean,
They don’t know your s...
CHARMAINE J FORDE How do you know when it's me?"
"Your footsteps are apologetic?"
"What does that mean?"
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BARBARA COLOROSO Everyone says what they mean even if they didn't mean to say it
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CHRIS EVANS And the emotion is especially strong in Boston. Here, Louisa May Alcott is their home-town girl.
KATE FISHER Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mea...
NEIL GAIMAN Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize ever...
CHRIS DIETZEL Just because your lover died doesn't mean you can't find another. Besides, if
you don't start d...
AMBER KELL When they boo you, you know they mean you.
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MEAN There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w...
LEBRON JAMES It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
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RUPERT MURDOCH The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
RICHARD CECIL You know the days when you get the mean reds?
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TRUMAN CAPOTE Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
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HANAN ASHRAWI You know all of the guys anyway and they don't really care what you say so you just speak up. When w...
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DOUG WILDER 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of a...
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GAIL GODWIN Oh the games people play now, every night and every day now, never meaning what they say now, never ...
JOE SOUTH Sometimes it's hard because I don't like to hurt people's feelings. So there have been times when a ...
ELLEN DEGENERES They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.
C.S. LEWIS They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.
MEGAN CHANCE It really sucks when someone I know doesn't say what they mean and what they feel, and then proceeds...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
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PHILIP LARKIN There was a message [of peace] to pass and it didn't get through. I know Arab countries. When they s...
LATIF YAHIA Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something crue...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
GAIL GODWIN I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
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Yes, everyone is.'
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ANDREW PETERSON You may think the actions that mean the most are the ones we get credit for, but I happen to believe...
MARILYN GREY JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing.
MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pi...
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TIM THARP You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do m...
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BEA ARTHUR Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
ELLEN HOPKINS Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they j...
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EMILY OSTER I have friends like that—very straightforward and responsible, good at what they do, good home lif...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred H...
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HARRY WHITE Do you know how some people can do anything?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you tel...
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LEONARDO DICAPRIO Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER They keep telling you, when you’re older, you’ll have experience—and that’s supposed to be s...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Dad?" Jesus said.
"Yes son. What is it?" God replied.
"Why have you left the stars turned ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Just Friends

I know that I don't own you,
and perhaps I never will,
so anger wh...
LANG LEAV I have friends like that—very straightforward and responsible, good at what they do, good home lif...
MIYUKI MIYABE Never say I love you
If you really don't care.

Never talk about feelings
If they...
ANON. I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can de...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Dad?" Jesus asked.
"Yes son?" God replied.
"Why does man have so many religions?" Jesus as...
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UNKNOWN But some relationships aren't meant to last.

They are worthy only till the time the two p...
SANHITA BARUAH

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Exce...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Let us be elegant or die!
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the child's heart bled when it was broken.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the violin — that most human of all instruments…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I hate ordinary people!
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty no...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Be worthy love, and love will come.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go d...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten afte...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, "It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Presently, out from the wrappings came a teapot, which caused her to clasp her hands with delight, f...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shap...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I could have been a great many things.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an America...
LOUISA ALCOTT People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for...
LOUISA ALCOTT My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding th...
LOUISA ALCOTT I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seem...
LOUISA ALCOTT If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA ALCOTT I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests
LOUISA ALCOTT Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA ALCOTT Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
LOUISA ALCOTT My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures (re descriptions in Uncle ...
LOUISA MAE ALCOTT Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUIS MAY ALCOTT