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Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

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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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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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Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing
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I am not in love with you, she said. It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.
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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'm no good at being good.
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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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Jessica: “You great drunken jackass!” Dain: “I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.
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She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.
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Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.
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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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Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?
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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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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 can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.
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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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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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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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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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The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.
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That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood, she said. You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself. That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood, he said. You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.
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