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“The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.”

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The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness…

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Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

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Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be…

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The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

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The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable…

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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair,…

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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

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