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Helen Simonson
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“Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
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“I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time.”
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“America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.”
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“The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations ... A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.”
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“Humiliation is the sport of the petty.”
Helen Simonson, English-born U.S. writer
(1930)