"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."

-- Vita Sackville-West

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“I am not the first straight dancer or the last.”
“I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.”
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
“No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.”
“Little world, full of little people shouting for recognition, screaming for love, Rolling world, teeming with millions, carousel of the hungry, Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do. The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.”
“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”
“... a compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...”

Source : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
“I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.”

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