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“To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?”
Source : Catherine Connell Stryker, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Violet Oakley (1976). “The Studios at Cogslea: Delaware Art Museum, February 20-March 28, 1976”
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“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
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“Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent”
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“The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.”
Source : Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Critical Writings of Ford Madox Ford”, p.76, U of Nebraska Press
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“Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.”
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“Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.”
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“I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.”
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“A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.”