I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

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