"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

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"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

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"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."

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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."

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"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."

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