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Helen Nielsen
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“Ada always sounded excited when she spoke, as if speech was a new art she had just mastered and was showing off.”
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“There's never been a night yet that didn't end eventually.”
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“... there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.”
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“I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all — thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.”
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“Starlet ... That's Hollywood for photogenic female, unemployed.”
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“When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.”
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“Thorkild smiled, and the gold caps gleamed. Then he went back to work on an open-faced sandwich that rather frightened Larry. He doubted that everything on it was completely dead.”
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“A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral ...”
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“... humility is like underwear — essential, but indecent if it shows.”
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“Silence can be the worst ridicule.”
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“There's nothing more unforgivable than someone who thinks he knows more about yourself than you do.”
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“It's the guided thought that conquers; not the guided missile.”
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“All Americans suffer from anxiety; it's a national disease.”
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“Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.”
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“When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.”
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“Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.”
Helen Nielsen, U.S. writer
(1918 - 2002)
Full name: Helen Berniece Nielsen.