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“The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.”
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“... it takes courage to lead a life. Any life.”
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“Love has a power all its own to make the difficult possible.”
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“Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.”
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“Men date. Women have relationships.”
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“She has a fatal facility in writing, does her voluminous magazine work without a typewriter, and challenges me, a new-found friend, to a correspondence with a letter of twelve pages and a short story of three sheets as a postscript. There is not a blot, an erasure or an abbreviation, thirty lines to a page, and so fine that her pen might be a hummingbird's quill. And alas! my answer will look as if I had written it with shoe polish and a toothbrush ...”
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“... the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.”
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“I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.”