Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.Jean Rhys
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.
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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were ... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily
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