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Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.
Susan Glaspell, author

We are living now.
We shall not live long.
No one should tell us we shall live again.
This is our little while.
This is our chance.

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 go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were.

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

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

This is cherries, too. (looking again) I declare I believe that's the only one.

She moved from that chair to this one over here (pointing to a small chair in the corner)

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

No, Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

I wonder if she was goin' to quilt it or just knot it?

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

That's the worst of a war
you have to go on hearing about it so long.

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Little dictionary sprite, sunshine vendor, and girl to be loved.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

though I said to Harry that I didn't know as what his wife wanted made much difference to John -

It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page.

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.

Come, little one, and let us learn of love.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

You're convinced that there was nothing important here - nothing that would point to any motive. SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things.

And most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like ... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.

As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.)

I - I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road.

Nothing here but kitchen things.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

But he was a hard man, Mrs Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him - (shivers) Like a raw wind that gets to the bone,

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

She - come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself - real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and - fluttery.