"When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon."

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Kate Douglas Wiggin

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
“Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.”
“In the clubs, the entertainment and the restaurant business are at war with each other. You get crowds that are not the greatest, and it becomes like a babysitting job, rather than doing what you want to do. I have a more deliberate pacing in my act, and having a half interested audience is death. They have to hear what I'm saying for it to pay off.”

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“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
“We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.”
“How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?”
“Just met a boy, just met a boy when he could become my little problem.”
“While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life”

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