My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five ...
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
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It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
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