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“The life of a religious might be compared to the building of a cathedral. Day by day the stones are laid, in the beginning one hardly distinguishable from another. ... Once a firm foundation has been laid, the building rises slowly.”
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“A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.”
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“Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.”
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“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”
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“Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work ...”
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“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.”
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“[Georgia] did not invite them in, explaining that it was time for her to start her serious drinking, an activity that required privacy and concentration.”
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“[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.”