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- I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
- Mary S. Calderone
- A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
- Eleanor Hamilton
- A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
- There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
- Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
- Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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