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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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.
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.
When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.