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"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
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"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."
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"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
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