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“Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.”
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“... the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.”
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“Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.”
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“Above the village a round and fat white cloud sat like a benign halo while, all about, the sky was blue.”
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“The consensus appears to be that as it is presented and practiced in our churches the gospel is not Good News for women.”
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“Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.”
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“'You don't have to read books, Jane,' said her mother with dignity, 'to know that they shouldn't be read. This book is very unpleasant.' ”
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“Whatever sales people or sentimental books may state, wild animals do not make good pets. Captivity, no matter how 'kind,' is always cruel.”