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Susan Ertz
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“All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.”
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“... for her the whole business of fiction was an arduous putting into words of ideas, pictures, thoughts that continually fought with her to keep their anonymity, their right to a shadowy and secret existence. She never put a thought on paper without feeling as though she were dragging some shrinking little crustacean out of its small shell with a pin.”
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“At her writing-table she came together. She often visualized herself as clinging to it by main force and writing down her thoughts while a perfect gale tried to detach her from it and scatter her to the four winds.”
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“She ... marveled at the strangeness and mystery of dreams, in which the dreamer is at the same time both inventor and surprised spectator.”
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“Love brags so, Lewis, it has such flaunting airs, it talks so much of its own strength and beauty even under the shadow of its own shameful death.”
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“... parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly so much.”
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“One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.”
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“We were like a lot of clocks, he thought, all striking different hours, all convinced we were telling the right time.”
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“The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.”
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“Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
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“He talked with more claret than clarity.”
Susan Ertz, U.S. writer
(1894 - 1985)