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“The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.”
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“The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.”
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“Marriage is a serious compromise.”
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“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again — that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!”
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“... Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.”
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“Family! ... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.”
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“I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.”
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“... people who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.”