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Don’t worry that at the moment you’re not writing. Live a little! Nothing will be lost—it will come back to you with interest when you’re back at your desk

— Blume Lempel Letters to Chava Rosenfarb (1982)

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The unwritten letters are the most interesting; they come spontaneously, straight from the heart, and swim away with all the unwritten stories, the uninvented poems.

Letters to Chava Rosenfarb (1982)

How wonderful to have a friend who reads, who understands, who offers a critical word that hits the nail on the head.

Letters to Chava Rosenfarb (1982)

“Life, my dear, is a garden full of all kinds of plants,” Mrs. Zagretti said. “People, too, are plants that must be cultivated if they are to reach their highest potential.”

The friendship has never crossed over the fence...The garden was the intermediary that brought them together. As the garden blossomed, so did the friendship — but never did it cross their thresholds.

"I understand people, maybe not with my brains but with something my ancestors planted in me." (Mrs. Zagretti)

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