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Louise Fitzhugh

Louise Fitzhugh (October 5, 1928 – November 19, 1974) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books, known best for the novel Harriet the Spy. Her other novels were two Harriet sequels, The Long Secret and Sport, and Nobody's Family is Going to Change.

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I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

Funny, Holes, Littles, Splinter, Splinters, Stomach

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

Admitting, Harriet, Health, Inspire, Thought

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

Lovely, Lying, Memories, Memory, Miss, Missing

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Live, People, Way, Way To Live, Ways

Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

Feel Better, Hated, Like, Look, Lying, People

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

Real, Things, Thinking, Trouble, Two, Way

Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Know, Nervous, People, Rest, Rest Of Your Life

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

Care, Don'T Care, Eat, Thinking, Writers

Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said. . . Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things. . . Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax. . . Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings. . . Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot. . . Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

Cabbages, Ceiling, Golly, Kings, Pigs, Sea

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

Different, Everybody, Life, Life Is, Mystery

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

Anger, Human, Sight, Ugly

She didn't care anymore. . . and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when she didn't have a notebook it was hard for her to think. The thoughts came slowly, as though they had to squeeze through a tiny door to get to her, whereas when she wrote, they flowed out faster than she could put them down. She sat very stupidly with a blank mind until finall 'I feel different' came slowly to her mind. Yes, she thought, after a long pause. And then, after more time, 'Mean, I feel mean.

Care, Mean, Notebook, Pause, Thinking, Thought

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Bits, Everything, Good, Ifs, Know, Knows

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

Good, Good Man, Important, Manners, Morning

All I ask of in the world is just one day after another with nothing planned.

Asks, Day, One Day, Planned, World

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them. - Harriet the Spy

People, Spy, Think, Thinking