Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to … - Sarah Orne Jewett

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If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

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This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

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A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

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A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

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I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

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My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

Age, Appear, Childhood, Wrinkles

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