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“ Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.”
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“... it's compassion that makes gods of us.”
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“ Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march, has poorly read his origin and his destiny.”
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“The knit stitch is a series of flat, vertical loops that produces a knitted fabric face and the purl stitch is its reverse. One side is smooth, the other bumpy. Knit is what you show the world, purl is the soft, nubbly underside you keep close to the skin.”
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“The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.”
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“Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.”
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“He'd forgotten just how addictive crime can be. Repeat offenders are motivated more by withdrawal symptoms than necessity. ”
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“She had no great religious convictions, and little interest in the supernatural. She had never really given any thought to what she believed in, except that she believed you could buy anything that anybody could possibly want at Bergdorf's or at Bloomingdale's.”