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No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.
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I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!
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It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
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I don't hafta take his sass
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There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.
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How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.
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It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.
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Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!
