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The journey is over. Love to all.

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Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.
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One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
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A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
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Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature it is an occupational hazard.
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
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Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
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What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
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It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
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