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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

~Frances Farmer

Topics: After Bath Between Clean Cool Could Dark Face God Had Hair Knuckle Lie Night Quite Sheets Still Talk Teeth Then Trees Used Washed Window

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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

~Frances Farmer

Topics: Found God Gone Had Him Me Other Out Past People Puzzled Puzzles Reached See Still Too Were Why Younger

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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

~Frances Farmer

Topics: Bad Bad Girl Began Calling Girl Got High Live Me More More People People Pointed Scorn Seattle Stubborn Tried Up West I Tried

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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

~Frances Farmer

Topics: About George George Washington Grade Grade School Much Our Pleasant Pretty School School Teacher She Stories Sunday Sunday School Talked Teacher Too Too Much True Us Used Washington Way

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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

~Frances Farmer

Topics: After Day Dirty Dish Even Feeling Get God Hands Hard Last Night Roof Same Showing Showing Up Sun Time Tops Up Water

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 19th, 1913

Died: August 1st, 1970

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