"A change is as good as a rest."
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"Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all."
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"Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy."
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"...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances."
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"She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe"
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"the only mortal sin is giving up."
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"Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable."
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"sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend"
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"Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you."
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"Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it."
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"It's a tough life if you don't weaken."
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"Writing is seduction."
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"Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever."
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"Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not."
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"I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off."
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"By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody."
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"Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody"
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"The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs."
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"But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more."
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"It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously."
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