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“All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.”
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“Bucky was clearly one of those smug people who don't like to be around failure, she thought. They were often the same people who'd made it with a great deal of help from their relatives.”
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“Mrs. Sandbo herself looked like wall paper, as if she had no sizable depth but a crisp, flat surface, the back of which would be gritty.”
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“But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!”
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“When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation ...”
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“There is no such thing as a five-minute phone consultation, don't you know that? It's like five-minute sex. They always want another one, and they never respect you for it.”
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“... there is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.”
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“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”