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Carol M. Mottershead
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Joan - Put on a happy face is a fascinating mix of historical fiction and fantasy. A good read and a real page-turner!
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I'm not crazy I'm 'IMAGIOPHRENIC'!
" Authors must be schizophrenic."
I know many authors whose family, and even their 'friends' call them 'schizophrenic', but I stand here before you today to tell you, hand on heart, that this is NOT TRUE!
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“I promise Joan, with all my heart, to make you the happiest woman alive. I want to stop this moment in time and freeze it for eternity!
‘No I beg of you don’t!’ I put a finger to his lips,
‘I thank you for your sentiments and I know you mean what you say right now, but... make no promises please, for your promise makes you my prisoner and I your gaoler.”
― Joan: Put on a Happy Face: A Time‑Spanning Tale of Love, Loss, and the Price of Immortality
‘No I beg of you don’t!’ I put a finger to his lips,
‘I thank you for your sentiments and I know you mean what you say right now, but... make no promises please, for your promise makes you my prisoner and I your gaoler.”
― Joan: Put on a Happy Face: A Time‑Spanning Tale of Love, Loss, and the Price of Immortality
“Before we were born, we are nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, we simply return to that nebulous state. We will become the raw material out of which new beings are fashioned. Will there be pain in this natural process? No! Pleasure..? No! Now, is there anything frightening in this? Certainly not! And yet, people sacrifice pleasure on earth in the hope that pain will be avoided in an after-life. The fools don't realize that, after death, pain and pleasure cannot exist: there is only the sensation-less state of cosmic anonymity: therefore, the rule of life should be ... to enjoy oneself.” - thanks goes to Marquis de Sade”
― Joan: Put on a Happy Face: A Time‑Spanning Tale of Love, Loss, and the Price of Immortality
― Joan: Put on a Happy Face: A Time‑Spanning Tale of Love, Loss, and the Price of Immortality
“Everyone believes that I write the way I live, but seriously, you tell your wife Joan, does she think my wife could stand by and love me the way she does if that was how I treated her in my own life? I am a politician dear lady, I give people what they want, I am a philosopher, writer and a gentleman.”
― Joan: Put on a Happy Face: A Time‑Spanning Tale of Love, Loss, and the Price of Immortality
― Joan: Put on a Happy Face: A Time‑Spanning Tale of Love, Loss, and the Price of Immortality
“I said a prayer for you today, and know God must have heard; I felt the answer in my heart, although he spoke no word!
I didn't ask for wealth or fame (I knew you wouldn't mine), I asked Him to send treasures of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that He'd be near you, At the start of each new day, To grant you health and blessing, and friends to share your way!
I asked for happiness for you, in all things great and small; But it was for His loving care, I prayed the most of all!”
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I didn't ask for wealth or fame (I knew you wouldn't mine), I asked Him to send treasures of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that He'd be near you, At the start of each new day, To grant you health and blessing, and friends to share your way!
I asked for happiness for you, in all things great and small; But it was for His loving care, I prayed the most of all!”
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“Wow! your book is a tour de force the research that you must have done to cover such a huge amount of years is amazing I loved the book you are a natural born story teller. I will give the book a week to settle in and then give it a review on Amazon. I wrote several non-fiction books but then decided to try fiction and I found it was my drug of choice. I hope to ready your next book soon. Lots of love and congratulations.!”
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“Don’t make me a promise. In doing so, you make yourself a prisoner. A promise is a prison. Don’t make me your gaoler.”
— Joan: Put On a Happy Face”
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— Joan: Put On a Happy Face”
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“Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous state. You are going to become the raw material out of which new beings will be fashioned. Will there be pain in this natural process? No! Pleasure? No! Now, is there anything frightening in this? Certainly not! And yet, people sacrifice pleasure on earth in the hope that pain will be avoided in an after-life. The fools don't realize that, after death, pain and pleasure cannot exist: there is only the sensationless state of cosmic anonymity: therefore, the rule of life should be ... to enjoy oneself!”
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