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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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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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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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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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One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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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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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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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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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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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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... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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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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