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“A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.”

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“When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.”

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“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.”

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“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone…

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“At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.”

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“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to…

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“Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going?”

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“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps…

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