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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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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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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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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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The journey is over. Love to all.
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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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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.
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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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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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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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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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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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Male friends do not always face each other they stand side by side, facing the world.
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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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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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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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