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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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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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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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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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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 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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