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Virginia Woolf
“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Joan Didion
“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

Ford Madox Ford
“Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

Joe Kelly
“And I'm a little mean to people who are dumb. And most people are dumb.”
― Joe Kelly, I Kill Giants

Fernando Pessoa
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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