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“Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.”
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“To leave the world richer — that is the ultimate success.”
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“We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.”
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“Interested people are happy people.”
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“They had not much original wit, but had inherited a stock of cheerful sayings which passed as such.”
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“... too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.”
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“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
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“... photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light ...”