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“All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.”
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“Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms ...”
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“Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.”
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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
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“Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.”
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“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.”
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“Worry is like a rocking chair — it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.”
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“If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.”