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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.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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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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One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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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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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
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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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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
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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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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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One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
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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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The journey is over. Love to all.
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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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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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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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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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