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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn betwe...more

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After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How ca...more

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You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing.

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Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That...more

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they'd hang head-down at the top of ...more

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I have seldom met an individual of literary tastes or propensities in whom the writing of love was not directly attributable to the love of writing.A ...more

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There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

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Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.