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Mary Wesley

"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."

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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

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"We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced."

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"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
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"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
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"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
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"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."
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"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
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"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
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"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
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"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."
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"I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse."
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