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“... Cora felt ambivalence rise in her like a genie without wishes to bestow.”
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“For to be powerless, to be a complete victim, may be another source of power.”
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“There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' — not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.”
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“Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.”
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“... art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.”
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“I wouldn't mind being your partner if there were two of me.”
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“Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.”
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“Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.”