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People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
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She had reminded herself that a man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
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It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.
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Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.
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Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.
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Will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
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Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.
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He was really quite a selfish person — I think most unhappy people are, don't you?
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She felt that most of the obstacles in her life had been placed there by logical people.
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When a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
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Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
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When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.
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She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen forces intervening.
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The fruit cakes she sent at Christmas... usually incapacitated the entire department, their brandy fumes lingering almost as long as the hangovers.
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Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
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My rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.
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We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.
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In what other job can a person be inventor, scientist, landscape gardener, ditch digger, researcher, problem solver, artist, exorcist, and on top of all that eat one's successes at dinner?
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Dorothy Gilman
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Born:
June 25, 1923
Died:
February 2, 2012
(aged 88)
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