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"In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever."
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"Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life."

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."

"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment."
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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."


"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."


"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."


"And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him."


"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."


"Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger."
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