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“We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.”
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“... the best thing for everyone concerned ... is what people always say when they have arranged something exclusively to suit themselves.”
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“Not that hunger does a cook justice. 'I do not like people that are hungry,' says Ude; 'hungry people eat any thing: I would have my dishes create, of themselves, an appetite; I do not wish them to be wanted till they are tasted, and then to eat is a compliment.'”
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“[She] was in her fifties, one of those women who hasn't had a waist for years and who wears a belt to remind her where it used to be.”
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“Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.”
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“Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.”
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“... 'tis better to have loved and lust than never to have loved at all.”
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“Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.”