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"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
"I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind."
"That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?"
"I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there."
"I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature."
"I rarely read or buy a book because of a review."
"I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was."
"Success and money can really be quite blinding."
"Every step of life shows much caution is required."
"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."
"Age merely shows what children we remain."
"To create something you must be something."
"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
"Superstition is the poetry of life."
"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."
"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."
"He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue."
