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“How few men responded adequately to the love a woman was capable of giving them!”
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“She would take any amount of trouble to avoid trouble.”
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“... anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.”
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“A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.”
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“She felt ill-suited to the mystery of being in a relationship. Relationship — that silk purse turned sow's ear, a corridor you wandered too far down and discovered a door had silently closed somewhere far behind you. If the suspense didn't kill you, something else surely would. Ensnared in a relentless beam of scrutiny, the only motion you could achieve was coming up short ...”
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“'Ellen!' — he was one of those men who always call their wife's name the minute they enter the house ... ”
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“... forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.”
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“I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.”