But my mother was in love and she had known about life for a long time, with her two bastard girls like two earrings; and she knew
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Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the bad things, so they came to fe
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It is not likely,... let me live as I will, that I shall ever be a rich woman, if I am to live in America; the cost of one's exist
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...I am useless, one more girl who couldn't be sold. When I visit the family now, I wrap my American successes around me like a pr
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity--it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's min
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In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat
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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do
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But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.
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