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“Gardening is, I think essentially the amusement of the middle-aged and old. The lives of the young, as a rule, are too full to give the time and attention required.”
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“Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.”
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“Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.”
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“This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.”
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“... my story, as Mama would have said, was a short horse and soon curried.”
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“My bed is my best friend. ... I type in it, telephone in it, think in it, and stare at the wall from it. Some morning, a long time from now, I hope I will be found peacefully dead in it, lying in a narrow but cozy space between old manuscripts, lost books, empty teacups, misplaced nightgowns, and unsharpened pencils.”
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“This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem — if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this. ”
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“We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.”