Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]

Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me.


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Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN
... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...
ANNE RICE
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, roma...
ANNE FRANK
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...
ANNE BYRHHE
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
ANNE RICE
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other peo...
ANNE FRANK
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
ANNE RIDLER
Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
ANNE RICE
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE
What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
ANNE RICE
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the i...
ANNE FRANK
You can plant a dream.
ANNE CAMPBELL
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
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