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“It would be too lonesome for them to be buried away off here by her house, six miles from nowhere; the dead like company too.”
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“I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.'”
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“It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.”
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“The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.”
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“Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories — in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”
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“... the hunger gnawed up and down her great body like a rat and would not let her sleep.”
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“At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.”
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“In the mid-nineties a men's movement hit this country with all the force of two marshmallows colliding in midair. ... What were they going to ask for? Pay equal to that received by women?”