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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
Author
Poet
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Feels
Flowing
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Wherever
Conversation
Fall
Keep
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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.
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Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.
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Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.
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The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.
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People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
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There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper in being both bountiful and provident.
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For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.
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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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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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I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
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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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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.
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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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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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I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.
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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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