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“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”

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The end is nothing; the road is all.

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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

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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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“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in…

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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…

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“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike…

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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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Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.

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Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

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