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Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
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Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.
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What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?
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Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always..
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.
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I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work.
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The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.
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When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish; something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
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I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
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The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
August 9, 1899
Died:
April 23, 1996
(aged 96)
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