Top 63 Mary Jo Putney Quotes
#1. Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
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#2. What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
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#3. I believe in love
Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare
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#4. A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
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#5. Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.
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#6. Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.
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#7. Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.
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#8. If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.
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#9. And certainly unchristian, to hate someone for the color of his skin, yet such trivial things can change the pattern of a life.
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#10. Gentlemen do not work. Since I do not work, therefore I must be a gentleman.
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#11. And with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.
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#12. My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character."
"Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.
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#14. Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She
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#16. But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!
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#17. Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
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#18. Form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of
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#19. But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very fragile and precious in the idea, though she didn't really understand it. Maybe someday she would.
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#20. I think that marriage is always the triumph of hope over fear.
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#21. I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
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#22. The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed."
"Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it.
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#23. If he chose, he could help this girl, but what was the point of saving one little whore? It would make no difference to that vast, endless, tragic horde of broken children.
But as Jenny stared at him with great stark eyes, he knew that it would make a difference to her.
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#24. You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help
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#25. Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.
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#26. There was deep truth in the fact that men spoke of Holy Mother Church, for the Church was the force of civilization and compassion among nations, just as women brought mercy and gentleness to men.
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#27. Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop?
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#28. Mikhal - ... most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you
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#29. Worry is throwing good shillings at trouble that hasn't happened yet.
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#30. Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise.
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#31. I don't usually look back. When I make foolish decisions, I file the consequences under lessons learned and tell myself not to be stupid in the same way again.
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#32. She always imagined the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Blessed Mother as points of light in the center of her heart, and as she prayed, the light expanded, flowing through her body and soul, smoothing away knots of guilt and sorrow and fear until her whole being glowed with harmony.
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#33. [On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.
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#34. Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.
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#35. She made a purring sound in her throat and pressed into his palm,
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#37. Men are imperfect creatures, aren't they? But they are the only opposite sex we have, so we must make the best of them.
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#38. But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.
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#39. The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy ... She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.
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#40. What a pity that men couldn't find such satisfactions without killing so many of their fellows.
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#41. Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.
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#42. Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed - but it's a beginning.
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#43. But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.
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#44. Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.
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#45. I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
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#46. We all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.
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#47. To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan
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#48. Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.
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#49. Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.
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#50. If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.
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#51. Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan.
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#52. Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.
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#53. Michael is easier to understand - he had to believe in Caroline. To betray a friend was despicable - to acknowledge that he had done so for a woman who was utterly unworthy
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#54. He'd known the headland was undercut from years of waves and weather, but he hadn't expected to trigger its complete collapse. Shoving the wall over had been merely an attempt to complicate the situation. He'd never imagined ... this.
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#55. Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of,
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#56. I don't know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved ... well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you.
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#57. Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
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#58. I love you," he gasped. "For always." "And I love you," she whispered as tears filled her eyes. He rolled on his side and drew her close, his arms sheltering against the storm that pounded on London. The sky itself wept because they loved each other, and it wasn't enough. As
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#59. If you allow an experienced man of the world to introduce you to passion when you want him more than he wants you, he will own your soul, but you will not own his.
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#60. Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, Kirkland said.
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#61. A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Lucien Fairchild
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#63. Not a savage - a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it. Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic.
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