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Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.
Loretta Chase
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Loretta Chase
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 2
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the United States of America
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I am not insane, he said. A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.
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He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal
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Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing
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And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.
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I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.” She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.
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They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
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She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.
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Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin? she said.I did not, he said. Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.
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Clara will break him to bridle,” Longmore said. “And if she can’t cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he’ll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she’ll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.
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Go away,” he said. “Do you know you’ve almost no clothes on?” “Never mind. I need—” “Never mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can ‘never mind.’ A nearly naked woman isn’t one of them.
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We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
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. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. “This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.” “Then use a harpoon.
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That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.
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Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.
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We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.
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I'm no good at being good.
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Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.
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I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.
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I deserve passion, she said. I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.
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