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- 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)
- 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
- I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
- Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
- The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944
- Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
- If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
- I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
- I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
- Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980
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