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“She had money and health and beauty, the triune of perfect starriness, which makes all men astronomers.
[of Clara Middleton]”
― The Egoist
[of Clara Middleton]”
― The Egoist
“She [Emma] pretends to herself it is instant anger her mother provokes, and she ignores the hurt beneath the fury, the pain only a mother can inflict that never goes away.”
― Five
― Five
“the older I get, the more convinced I am that every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
“The past is full of contradictions and complications, perhaps equal to those of the present, though we do not usually think so.
'No Advantages”
― The View from Castle Rock
'No Advantages”
― The View from Castle Rock
“At heart, Roosevelt’s progressivism stemmed from a conservative desire to see the old elite maintain authority rather than defer to a rising robber-baronocracy.”
― In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
― In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
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