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“The same old rain, and, if not welcomed, at least accepted—an old gray aunt who came to visit every winter and stayed till spring. You learn to live with her. You learn to reconcile yourself to the little inconveniences and not get annoyed. You remember she is seldom angry or vicious and nothing to get in a stew about, and if she is a bore and stays overlong you can train yourself not to notice her, or at least not to stew about her. Which”
― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

“And so they went, down the row of laughing women, around the diningroom, refilling coffee cups, dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing Calpurnia.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Какую клевету ни взведи на человека, он, в сущности, заслуживает в двадцать раз хуже того.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Отцы и дети