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“Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.”
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“I am not a first-rate writer. I write with blood in place of ink. But why should only first-rate writers have a place in the world? The railroad has a second class too! Isn't that so?”
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“Anyone who believes that men and women have the same mind-set hasn't lived on earth. A man thinks that everything he does is wonderful, that the sun rises and sets around him. But a woman has doubts.”
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“The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.”
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“Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.”
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“There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.”
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“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”
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“I edged forward on my pew in the gallery so I wouldn't miss a single word. My ex-lover's new girlfriend, Eve Eberlein, was about to be publicly humiliated by the Honorable Edward J. Thompson. I wanted to dance with joy right there in the courtroom. Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned.”