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“Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.”
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“Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.”
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“It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.”
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“If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.”
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“You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.”
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“To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.”
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“Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”
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“The pages of our living turn so silently we scarcely hear them, and it is only afterward that we can look back and say, 'That was one chapter.'”