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“Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.”
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“What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?”
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“The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.”
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“You get a hundred dollars a week for filing, and a hundred dollars a night for fucking, but you don't get nuthin' for filing, and fucking, and cleaning, and cooking, and washing, and ironing, and chauffering, and nursing, and sewing, and ...”
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“I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.”
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“Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.”
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“John went up in the world — made a ladder of his brains and climbed.”
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“'It's like anything else,' Mrs. Moone said, largely. She said it quite often, I noticed, one of those fat, loose remarks that seem to settle down over everything, like a collapsing tent.”