The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
[Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms]

This letter, from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, who was her editor for the Little Prairie books, is priceless.

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[With thanks to Thea, and Slate.]