"Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word."

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Source : Preface to "Country Living and Country Thinking". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Mary Abigail Dodge

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“There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush.”
“And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.”

Source : Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond (1940). “The End-of-the-road”
“It felt like something was calling me to Israel, and that I had to go there to discover it. I don't know how else to explain it. In my head, I was thinking it was something about music, something I needed to hear. So I booked a plane ticket and left the next day.”
“Then I yelled through his door, "It's an anniversary gift for you, asshole. Two whole weeks early. FIFTEEN YEARS IS BIG METAL CHICKENS.”
“God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.”
“Sending our youth to war is wrong.”

Source : Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.
“My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.”

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