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“ Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.”
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“I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.”
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“Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.”
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“Dance in the fullness of time.”
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“[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.”
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“A watched phone never rang.”
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“... reality can be magnificent even when life is not.”
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“... when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life — I have always noticed that before it happens — this leaving, this parting — when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.”