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" A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. "
Dawn Powell
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" Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. "
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" I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him. "
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" A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. "
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" The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). "
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" The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. "
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" Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more. "
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" Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. "
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