"The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves."

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“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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— Jeanette Winterson

Literature1959

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"If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one mom…"

— Augusten Burroughs

Literature1965

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"He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something…"

— W. Somerset Maugham

Literature1874–1965

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"Chris, I believe with all my heart that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them. … How he did that, I’ll ask him about some day."

— Mike Pence

Politics1959

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