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"Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."Sophie: "But then I can't talk!"

"The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?"

"In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about..."

"Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it."

"Was he a good father?"To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more."

"When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself."

"Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of..."

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler"

"I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back"

"It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of th..."