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“When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.”
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“... it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.”
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“Changing our language to make men and women equal has a cost. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. High prices are attached to many things that are on the whole worth doing. It does mean that the loss of our heedless grace should be mourned, and then accepted with all the civility we can muster, by every writer worth his'er salt.”
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“It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.”
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“I disapprove of snobbery in matters of thought as intensely as I approve of it in matters of dress. Good thinking never springs from snobbery — good dressing from little else.”
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“... good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do.”
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“For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.”
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“I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.”