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“The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.”
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“Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.”
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“Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.”
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“Christmas was a miserable time for a Jewish child in those days, and I still recall the feeling. ... Decades later, I still feel left out at Christmas, but I sing the carols anyway. You might recognize me if you ever heard me. I'm the one who sings, 'La-la, the la-la is born.'”
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“We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.”
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“When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.”
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“Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.”
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“Cut down that there maple tree outside the lean-to door, burn the trunk to ashes, and Ma'll up and leach the ashes for lye. Scatter the leaves and they'll make winter mulchin'. Seeds that have been shook off will come up. No, sir, if you can't kill that old maple you ain't goin' to be able to kill me. I'll be in somethin' a hundred years from now, even if it's just the prairie grass or the wind in the timber or the wild geese ridin' out the storm.”