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Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
Anne Fortier
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Anne Fortier
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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Romeo was cute …” “Cute?” Alessandro rolled his eyes. “What kind of man is cute?” “… and an excellent dancer …” “Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!” “… but most importantly,” I concluded, “he had nice hands!
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I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.
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For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.
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After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.
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When the old men fight, the young people die.
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Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
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I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
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Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
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Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
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While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.
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I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
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By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
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...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
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You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
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.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
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...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.
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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
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I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.
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