"...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other."

-- Rheta Childe Dorr

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“I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.”
“There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.”
“The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!”
“I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.”
“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
“The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.”

Source : "Sarah Manguso: 'My diary-keeping is a vice'" by Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2015.
“Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.”
“Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.”

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