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Joy Browne
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“Infidelity — cheating — is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.”
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“Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.”
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“Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.”
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“The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.”
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“A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way — from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.”
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“Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.”
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“Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.”
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“The thing about sex is not that you're naked physically, but if you do it right, that you're naked emotionally.”
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“[On love on the rebound:] Remember, lives under construction are unstable and therefore dangerous foundations on which to build a new structure.”
Joy Browne, U.S. radio psychologist, writer, film critic
(1944)