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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Fiction
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Shows
Reality
Doe
Better
Good
Life

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Forethought spares afterthought.
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Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
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A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful to go to work with a full sense of life to be determined to put hindrances out of the way to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful there is no beatitude for the despairing.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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