it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give. - Mary McMullen

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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

Mary McMullen

it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.

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Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

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People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

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I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

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Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

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