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“... books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.”
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“... although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ”
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“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.”
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“Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.”
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“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' — forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.”
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“Our love of each other is like one long shadow kissing without hope of reality.”
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“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
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“... I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.”