Kathleen Norris Short Quotes

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Changing husbands is only changing troubles...

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Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate...

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

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There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

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There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

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Any rules that are made for everybody hurt somebody, sometimes.

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Happiness frightened her as solitude and loneliness never had done.

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Waste is a spiritual thing and harms the soul as well as the pocketbook.

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But people's as quick to forget favors as to ask thim, we all know that.

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Never in the history of the big, round world has anything like us occurred.

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Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

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Jealousy can be like that, as anxious to be near to its object as love can be.

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

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Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

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Blackmail on a large scale is respectable, like everything else on a large scale.

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Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

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[The] very hot day... was like a last flaming hand-clasp from the departing summer.

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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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Times had changed; women could do things now that they couldn't do thirty years ago.

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The feast had all the elements of perfection: good company, firelight, and appetite.

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

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When they're little, they break your back, and when they're big they break your heart.

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The mystery that draws one human being toward another must remain a mystery to the end.

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Don't be bitter... One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

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Life has a strange way of making us pay for our blunders in the exact coinage we misspent.

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My brother was what he is now; I never had a cent that he didn't borrow. He calls it borrowing.

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San Francisco always is and always will be the youngest at heart of all the cities in the world.

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If we do not always see our own mistakes and omissions we can always see those of our neighbors.

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When they were going to be flagrantly, brutally selfish, how men did love to talk of being fair!

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When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

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