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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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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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One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
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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 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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... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
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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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. . . 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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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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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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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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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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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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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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A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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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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