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she has to sift through the world and decide for herself what’s good about it and what’s bad,
“If a person isn’t generally considered beautiful, they can still be a success if they have a few jokes in their pockets. And a lot of pockets.”
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“Beauty in danger becomes more beautiful”
― Fame
― Fame
“... he learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. He developed a love for poor people he could not have conceived if he had not been poor himself.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“... people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule – a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting – only the deeply personal and familiar.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Couples do become like each other when they're together for a long time, because you like the person and you pick up their mannerisms and their little good habits.”
― Fame
― Fame
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