Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
Source: A Family Collection: Life on the Farm and in the Country, Making a Home; the Ways of the World, a Woman's Role
As quoted in "Oh Sweet Serendipity" By Joseph Pisani Inside Switzerland magazine (Winter 2007), p. 94
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
Source: A Family Collection: Life on the Farm and in the Country, Making a Home; the Ways of the World, a Woman's Role
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
Letter to a "Friends of Temperance" society (9 December 1869); as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1875) by John William Jones, p. 170
1860s
“For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.”
Jonathan Ames (1964) American novelist, memoirist
“Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.”
Gilbert Ryle book The Concept of Mind
Source: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. I: Descartes' Myth, (4) Historical Note
“The things that go wrong often make the best memories.”
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
A.R. Ammons (1926–2001) American poet
Paris Review interview (1996)