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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
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“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― On Self-Respect
― On Self-Respect
“...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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