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“... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. ... intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.”
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“We more quickly forget kindnesses than offenses: caresses leave fewer traces than bites.”
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“I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important.”
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“... the only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear a thing you say. How can they? They are asleep. So don't put anyone to sleep, and you will probably do okay.”
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“... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.”
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“... who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?”
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“When it came to chit-chat, he made Silas Marner look like Arsenio Hall.”
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“No committee ever has, or ever will, run a revolution.”