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“The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.”

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The end is nothing; the road is all.

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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

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“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,…

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“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.”

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"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

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“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach…

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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

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