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Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.
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A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.
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A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.
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Behind every myth lies a truth beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
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Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
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The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.
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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.
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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
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Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.
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Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
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Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
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