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“It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.”
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“Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.”
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“... our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.”
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“I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.”
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“Life really can't utterly defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death; fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant ... ”
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“You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.”
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“... the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.”
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“I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.”