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“A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.”
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“Want, the Mistress of Invention, still tempts me on.”
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“It is always dull in books when people talk and talk, and don't do anything ... The best part of books is when things are happening. That is the best part of real things too. That is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by' — or 'the years rolled on their weary course,' or 'time went on' — because it is silly; of course times goes on, whether you say so or not.”
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“We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.”
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“There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.”
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“Now I was someone who ate like a wolf, napped like a cat, and dreamed like a madwoman.”
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“... the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.”
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“Until the moment arrives — as it no doubt will — when technology makes possible the creation of human life outside of a female body, a woman's anatomy, her capacity and desire to bear and to rear children, will remain a source of conflict for her as well as for those who seek to impose upon her their own definition of her true destiny.”