A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent of mud and stars of earth and flowers of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.Edna Ferber
To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge - this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
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