| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33693 |
| QUOTATION: | I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that’s piled up ahead of me, I’ll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I’ll be living a beautiful life. And that, too ... [ellipsis in source] |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), U.S. author. As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 8, by William V. Holtz (1993).
Written sometime in the 1920s. |
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