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  • There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

  • History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
  • Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
  • Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
  • No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub
  • A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

  • What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1997). “The Bedquilt and Other Stories”, p.29, University of Missouri Press
  • gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

  • don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”
  • it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
  • There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

  • If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

  • Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1926). “The Bent Twig”
  • I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1939). “Seasoned Timber”, p.297, UPNE
  • If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
  • I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

  • perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

  • You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”
  • Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

  • You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”
  • One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1956). “A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing”
  • Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.

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