- A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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- Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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- Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.
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- Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
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- Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never.
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- Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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- Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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