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"I'm a writer first and a woman after."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."

"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."

"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools."

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."

"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
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