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““This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother to put a saucer under her cup.””

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“He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.”

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“Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses…

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“…it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate…

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nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of…

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So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal…

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In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

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“This was during a period in my reading life when I was given to understand that "relating" to the fictional characters or situation was…

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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself…

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A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse,…

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“I won't even mention the swift, transitory reward of lemon spray wax. Danielle Westerman and I have discussed the matter of housework. Not surprisingly,…

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“A Canadian journalist named Pinky Fulham was killed when a soft drinks vending machine overturned, crushing him.”

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There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

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Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists…

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So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

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[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

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We have reached the point where we can lose a game or two and not drop out of sight in the rankings. I've been…

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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

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“The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year! If…

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Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands…

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“Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of an…

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