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I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.


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THOMAS JANE If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
CALAMITY JANE I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN