Frances Farmer Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!”

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

“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.”

“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.”