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Rosellen Brown
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“All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.”
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“They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.”
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“The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.”
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“Politics, she had learned at a very early age, was the art of separating the events you could make something out of from those that simply happened and went on happening.”
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“[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.”
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“Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.”
Rosellen Brown, U.S. writer, educator
(1939)