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“... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.”
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“Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.”
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“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.”
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“... nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this ...”
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“I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.”
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“It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
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“Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.”
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“True politeness is the language of a good heart, and those possessing that heart will never, under any circumstance, be rude.”