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" Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write. "

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" Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us. "

" I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that. "

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" Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon. "

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" I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream. "

" We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things. "

" Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good. "