29 Quotes by Frances Farmer

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.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

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.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.