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Behind every myth lies a truth beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Behind
Radiant
Lying
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Reality
Legends
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Myth
Truth
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Sometimes
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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
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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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People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.
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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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I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family we take the middle view / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.
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Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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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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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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Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
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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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Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
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The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.
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These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
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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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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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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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