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I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.
The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.
You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
Integrity of thought, flexibility of mind, and a consuming curiosity concerning the world and its occupants were the touchstones to her friendship. Whether she happened to find these in some struggling gifted youth or in some person of recognized achievement, her response was equally sincere. The sensitive antennae of her own sympathy and human awareness reached out in a roomful of people and unerringly found minds to quicken hers, talents to match her own. She loved wit, but not at the expense of wisdom. She delighted in good company and the exchange of talk, yet she was seldom deceived by mere superficial brilliance." -p. 505
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.
No matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Doorbells are like a magic game,
Or the grab-bag at a fair
You never know when you hear one ring
Who may be waiting there.
The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!
