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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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