Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. . . . But amusing Never.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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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.
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