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“Love: It will kill you and save you, both.”
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“Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.”
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“At present we avoid warfare — 'the good swords rust'; but we are not more peaceably disposed than our ancestors — look at the gauntlet to be run by a successful author. Ingenuity is racked for abuse, and language for its expression: everybody takes his success as personal affront. I think the late invention of steel pens quite characteristic of the age.”
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“Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.”
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“... that's the first time I ever heard anyone, much less a chick, admit to not having a sense of humor. Most people would rather confess to murdering dear ole mum.”
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“Rosie is the latest and most successful of the television performers who sell salvation and do very well out of a commodity which is always in demand and which costs them nothing to supply.”
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“Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.”
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“Friends. Our lifeline to the world of sociability; without them we would lead very cloistered lives indeed.”