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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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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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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 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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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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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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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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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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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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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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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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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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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