"Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener."

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“Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."”

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“A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.”

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“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”

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