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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute…
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in…
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how…
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved…
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,…
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Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which…
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"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
— Willa Cather
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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who…
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It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud…
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Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk…
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