To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.
