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Marjorie Benton Cooke

  • There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

    • Marjorie Benton Cooke,
    • Bambi
    • ()
  • I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

    • Marjorie Benton Cooke,
    • Bambi
    • ()
  • Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

    • Marjorie Benton Cooke,
    • Bambi
    • ()
  • ... until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

    • Marjorie Benton Cooke,
    • Bambi
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  • ... creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

    • Marjorie Benton Cooke,
    • Bambi
    • ()
  • The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

    • Marjorie Benton Cooke,
    • Bambi
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  • The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

    • Marjorie Benton Cooke,
    • Bambi
    • ()

Marjorie Benton Cooke, U.S. writer, playwright

(1876 - 1920)