Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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