All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*
Stella GibbonsTags: art
This may not be much, but it is something. Tomorrow we die; but at least we danced in silver shoes.
Stella GibbonsTags: dancing death future-inspirational
An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.
Stella Gibbons. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will
Stella GibbonsTags: happiness ageing long-life good-fortune
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
Stella GibbonsThere are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
Stella GibbonsAfter another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence:
"I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute."
It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply.
Tags: humor
It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily.
Stella GibbonsTags: writing
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
Stella GibbonsTags: endurance conversation
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
Stella GibbonsTags: education
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