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“One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited ...”
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“Sex — the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.”
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“Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.”
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“Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius ...”
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“Are anybody's parents typical?”
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“'Your laws are ineffective,' Wen declared. 'Why? Because no system of control will work as long as most of those administering the law against an evil have more than a finger dipped into it themselves.'”
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“Evidently Christmas was an unmitigated joy only for the people who inhabited department-store brochures and seasonal television specials. For everyone else the day seemed to be a trip across a mine field seeded with resurrected family feuds, exacerbated loneliness, emotional excess, and the inevitable disappointments that arise when expectations fall far short of reality.”
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“It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.”