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“... hope is a very unruly emotion.”
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“Originality is not everything. The words hosts most want to hear when the evening is over are 'Thank you, I had a wonderful time' and 'Good night.' ”
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“... women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.”
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“Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.”
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“How do we keep our youth? (I have one friend, Lenore, who keeps him in the guest closet.)”
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“Reputation is what folks say about us: Character is what God knows about us.”
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“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”
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“More than likely, we will never achieve the satisfaction of knowing a single 'why' of our becoming, any more than our limited, earthbound brain could ever meaningfully grasp a clear purpose behind the vastness of the universe. Any answer would necessarily include understanding the why of the why, and that would be a little like looking into one's own eyes.”