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It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness—however temporary, however flimsy—of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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July 10, 1931
Died:
May 13, 2024
(aged 92)
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