I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer—its dust and lowering skies.

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"Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all."

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"Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."

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"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was 12 or 13. He said, ‘You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.’ And I said, ‘But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but I know it’s there.’"

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