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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights.

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Quotes from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them, but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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