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The journey is over. Love to all.

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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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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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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
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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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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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Male friends do not always face each other they stand side by side, facing the world.
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Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
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... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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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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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
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