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Rachel Field
American
Novelist
About the author
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field,
American
Novelist
#Happiness
#Fortune
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
Rachel Field,
American
Novelist
#Thought
#Pain
#Reality
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Rachel Field,
American
Novelist
#Public
#Opinion
#Wind
#Fire
#Public opinion
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field,
American
Novelist
#Now
#May
#Ambition
#Discontent
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
Rachel Field,
American
Novelist
#Friends
#Old
#Writing