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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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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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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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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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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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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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One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
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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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The journey is over. Love to all.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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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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. . . 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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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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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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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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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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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