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Although her professional responsibilities--to Princeton, her publisher, her public--are heavy, Morrison insists that "my personal life is most unexciting, and I like it like that." She sees a small group of friends occasionally and reads all the time. "Reading is splendid." She also gardens at the house in the country, "pot gardening, now mostly flowers. There have been mornings when I've gone into my greenhouse at sunrise, and the next time I checked it was noon...
...wasn't surprised because I saw it coming," he said. "There's this quality of inner, banked fire--some controlled passion which is part of her personality. And she has an absolutely splendid record...
...like to see a prosperous and once-more splendid China again," he says...
...delighted beyond belief that they are returning--they were wonderful company and splendid members of the community," Mitchell wrote. "Indeed, I would hold Senator and Mrs. Simpson up as models of what Resident Scholars at their best can, and do, offer the Houses...
...family--making it stable, firm, happy--would help save humankind. Her father and mother had failed miserably at family. She did not intend to. But she stumbled into the very nightmare she sought to avoid and became the spectacular mirror for other people's disappointments: the most splendid of cautionary tales. In the monumental ruin of Diana's life, people saw the limits of their own aspirations...