I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

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For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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