Elizabeth Enright Quotes

#1. Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.

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#2. Churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer,

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#3. In Nina Kimbereley's garden the scabiosa flowers were dark as garnet brooches; the nicotiana a veil of tossing crimson stars. Nothing was usual, or a dull color. All was exceptional, designed to be exceptional since it had been planned as the background for a beauty by the beauty.

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#4. Mrs. Schultz believed in beer the way his grandmother believed in the Republican party.

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#5. I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.

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#6. Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

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#7. Each golden day was cherished to the full, for one had the feeling that each must be the last. Tomorrow it would be winter.

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#8. Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.

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#9. Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.

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#10. He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn.

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#11. Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o'clock in the afternoon the roses were quiet on their stems, full-blown, fulfilled; the water in the pool was warm; the leaves on the trees quiet, too, and green. The cat lay with his belly to the sun, steeped in heat.

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#12. No matter how old a person gets, he's never old in spring!

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#13. By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar ... there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.

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#14. Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

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#15. Mr. Payton was at work on his pipe again, lighting and coaxing it. "They need constant attention, pipes, like babies and guinea hens," he said, and sucked in the smoke.

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#16. Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust looked strange and beautiful above the brilliant green grass.

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#17. Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there's a star called Aldebaran? And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky ant night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?

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#18. October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master.

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#19. Good things must have comparers, I suppose,' said Portia, 'Or how would we knowhow good they are?

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#20. Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.

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#21. A certain red cardinal sounded like a little bottle being filled up, up, up with some clear liquid.

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#22. And for heaven's sake don't play Bach," ordered Randy. "It's so jumpy for today." Rush

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