"There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon."
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"Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies."
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"Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more."
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"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet."
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"I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!"
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"Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer."
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"I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate."
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"Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world"
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"It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition."
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"The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes."
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"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
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"The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska."
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"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while."
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"[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution."
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"Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived."
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"Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."
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"Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page."
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"Today I stood taller from walking among the trees."
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"A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude."
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"There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring."
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