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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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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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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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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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as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
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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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... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
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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 journey is over. Love to all.
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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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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
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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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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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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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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We in middle age require adventure.
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