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“Chronology irritates me. There is no chronology inside my head. I am composed of a myriad of Claudias who spin and mix and part like sparks of sunlight on water.”
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“'You are like me!' The deepest flattery one creature pays its fellow, the cry which is uttered when another enters 'our country.'”
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“True simplicity is elegant.”
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“Curiosity is the other side of caution.”
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“... if coffee isn't too hot, it isn't hot enough.”
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“It is so easy for a middle-aged person, in the presence of youth, to be deluded about his own age. The young faces are so exactly like the one he saw in his own mirror — only day before yesterday, it seems.”
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“Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.”
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“When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes.”