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As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point.
As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point.
Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
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- Willa Cather
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- Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1873 to 1947; Wikidata Q229480, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229480 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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