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Kathleen Norris Quotes
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Famous Kathleen Norris Quotations
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Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880, San Francisco, California - January 18, 1966, Palo Alto, California) was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909
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- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
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- Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
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- Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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- If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
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- In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
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- Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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- Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
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- None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
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- There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
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- When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
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