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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.
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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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