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“If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.”
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“My grandmother was a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.”
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“We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent friend who reminds us of our better self has decided a good way to spend the day is to open a box of Brillo pads, unravel a few, distribute some throughout the house, and eat or wear all the rest. And we shake our heads in an inability to comprehend what went wrong here.”
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“Remember, we're all in this alone.”
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“Anything that you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. We are not free.”
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“Pleasure is like a cordial — a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.”
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“Thoughts succeed thoughts, like restless troubled waves, / Dashing out one another.”
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“... forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.”