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“It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.”
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“... she'd a pow'rful Belief in God, whom she believ'd had a more sympathetick Ear to Black Voices than to White ones, owing to the greater Suff'rings of their Possessors.”
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“The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.”
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“One seems to have two kinds of memory. The first is just thought. I remember thus and so. It does not touch you. It is mental only, though quite accurate and cold. But the second is something else. There is an inner door to memory and when you open it, it is all right there. You are there. ... I find it is quite painful to push open that inner door. It is not that the experiences then were painful nor yet that they were so happy that I look back with too much longing on them. It's just that I feel it — life — so vividly, almost more vividly than I did then, and its very vividness is a kind of anguish.”
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“No one can be taught to be a writer. But it is possible to learn to write better.”
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“Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.”
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“Thing are achieved when they are well begun. / The perfect archer calls the deer his own / While yet the shaft is whistling.”
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“I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.”