"Self-pity is the simplest luxury."
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"There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients."
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"friendship is love made bearable."
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"I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience."
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"So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love."
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"Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice."
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"Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers."
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"Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity."
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"Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former."
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"I believe in art that conceals art."
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"You're nothing in America if you don't have debt."
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"Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?"
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"You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say."
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"Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger."
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"Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act."
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"What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions."
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"Pain isn't always the enemy."
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"It's a big jump from smart to motherwit."
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"whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California."
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"When God made man she was practicing."
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