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"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."
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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
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"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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