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"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer."

"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."

"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
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