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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
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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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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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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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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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Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
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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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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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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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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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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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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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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.
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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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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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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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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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Male friends do not always face each other they stand side by side, facing the world.
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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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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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