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A view of my own (1962)
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History... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.
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Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.
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Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache.... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.
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In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.
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Boston — wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming — has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.
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This photographer felt deeply the stab of professional insult common to people who have lived in a foreign country for a few years and still find their opinions not asked for at home.
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I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elizabeth Hardwick
Born:
July 27, 1916
Died:
December 2, 2007
(aged 91)
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