Kathleen Norris - Persons Quotes

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Both prayer and poetry begin deep within a person, beyond the reach of language.

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She was one of those fortunate persons who can make listeners believe that they have achieved something by merely talking about it. Lucy could somehow make an overdue bill seem more creditable to her than many a woman could a bank-account. She was amazingly glib.

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For friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

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I think people have to be rather simple to think each other wonderful, and to hear the same jokes, and express the same opinions for fifty years. I've always noticed that the persons who had golden weddings looked rather dull.

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There's nothing so upsetting to one's philosophy as meeting an entirely happy person!

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There is no situation so high or so luxurious that it is not utterly dreary without friends; and there is no place so isolated and quiet and obscure but what we love it if the persons we love are there.

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