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First, he was charming, and my mother was suspicious of charm. She believed its purpose was to conceal some personal deficit or lack of substance. If your character was sound, you didn’t need charm. And second, Uncle Frank was a Hayden, and
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“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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