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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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
Carolyn Heilbrun
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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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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It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Male friends do not always face each other they stand side by side, facing the world.
Carolyn Heilbrun
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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.
Carolyn Heilbrun
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
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