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“... don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that — and it's true.”
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“... artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.”
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“Prayer is conscious desire to listen to God.”
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“To follow slavishly every whim of the mode is to lose that poetry of dress that is so intrisincally a part of the fine personality. ”
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“Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.”
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“... we have these extraordinary minds and souls ... because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.”
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“... love and life cannot help but marry and stay married with an exhausting violence of fidelity.”
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“... to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.”