Margaret Landon Quotes

• Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

  Margaret Landon

  People, World

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• She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

  Margaret Landon

  Heart, Secret, Trying

  Margaret Landon (2016). “Anna and the King of Siam”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

  Margaret Landon

  Selfishness, Levels, Selflessness

  Margaret Landon (1945). “Anna and the King of Siam”

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• If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

  Margaret Landon

  Pain, Choices, Exquisite

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• I gaze upon the thousand stars
  That fill the midnight sky;
  And wish, so passionately wish,
  A light like theirs on high.
  I have such eagerness of hope
  To benefit my kind;
  I feel as if immortal power
  Were given to my mind.

  Margaret Landon

  Stars, Light, Sky

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• That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

  Margaret Landon

  Journey, Destination, Roads And Journeys

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• To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.

  Margaret Landon

  Ignorance, Order, Giving

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• When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

  Margaret Landon

  Silence

  "Fictional character: King Mongkut". "Anna and the King", 1999.

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