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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. – Mignon McLaughlin

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Life
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Success
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Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. – Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969

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The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. – Albert Camus, Le Suicide philosophique

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Miscellaneous

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. – Arthur Christopher Benson

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A whirl of torrid dust veils the picture. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. – Benjamin Franklin

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All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Thats the poetry side, thats the prose side, thats the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that youve enjoyed. – Norman MacCaig

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Vision is the true creative rhythm. – Robert Delaunay

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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I dont think any one will deny us. – Louisa May Alcott

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