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It consists in just looking at people and things as themselves - neither as useful nor moral nor ugly nor anything else; but just as BEING. [...] What happens is that I suddenly feel the extraordinary value and importance of everybody and everything I see. [...] I roam about places - yesterday I did it even in Birmingham! - and sit in trains and see the essential glory and beauty of all the people I meet. I can watch a dirty middle-aged tradesman in a railway-carriage for hours, and love every dirty greasy sulky wrinkle in his weak chin and every button on his spotted unclean waistcoat. I know their states of mind are bad. But I'm so much occupied with their being there at all, that I don't have time to think of that. I tell you that a Birmingham gouty Tariff Reform fifth-rate business man is splendid and immortal and desirable.

Gladys Arnold quoting unknown in correspondence to Hazel

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"She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in the process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude."

This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald

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"...the history of her constitution and its many amendments..."

This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald

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"For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her."

This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald

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"Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."

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