Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.


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let me be feverish and frowning.
ANNE SEXTON
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK
The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thing...
ANNE SMEDLEY
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible...
ANNE FRANK
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at hear...
ANNE FRANK
I see the eight of us with our 'Secret Annexe' as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surround...
ANNE FRANK
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
ANNE BAXTER
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from...
ANNE BAXTER
And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE
Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.
ANNE AUSTIN
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ...
ANNE RAVER
Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than a...
ANNE FRANK
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent t...
ANNE TUCKER
Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.
ANNE HECHE
Sex is a short cut to everything.
ANNE CUMMING
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
ANNE FRANK
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and o...
ANNE LAMOTT
A hundred years from now? All new people.
ANNE LAMOTT
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to...
ANNE LAMOTT
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
ANNE LAMOTT
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
ANNE LAMOTT
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all...
ANNE LAMOTT
[Lamott is an unstoppable storyteller, whether writing about church-going with a sullen adolescent o...
ANNE LAMOTT
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on ...
ANNE LAMOTT
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET
... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit r...
ANNE PERRY
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridicu...
ANNE SULLIVAN
As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
ANNE SEXTON
I wish to go on living even after my death.
ANNE FRANK
You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and ...
ANNE FRANK
I think a lot, but I don't say much.
ANNE FRANK
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
ANNE FRANK
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
ANNE FRANK
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
ANNE FRANK
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
ANNE RICE