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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Increasingly
Heat
Grows
Sleep
Snoring
Sound
Cleaner
Father
Cleaners
Like
Vacuums
Vacuum

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The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
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Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
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The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.
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