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Phyllis McGinley

"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

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"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."

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"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."

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"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."

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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."

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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."

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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."

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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

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"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

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"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."

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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
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"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
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"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."
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"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."
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