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Josephine Pinckney
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“Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.”
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“... there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.”
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“The miraculous thing is that miracles do happen.”
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“Timothy said he had tried riding and it had toned up his muscles, but on the whole he considered it a crude sport. 'Regarding it from the viewpoint of the horse, I mean.'”
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“... there's a lot more satisfaction in thinking about money than in spending it, if people only knew.”
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“Natural behavior, he concluded, was selfish behavior; a few well-chosen conventions were essential to human relationships ...”
Josephine Pinckney, U.S. poet, novelist
(1895 - 1957)
Full name: Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney.