One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, to some of the ...
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
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Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
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There's nothing colder than chemistry.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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It was a little bit of a shock to lose Anita and Sydney, but I knew the other girls would still do well. But they actually are doing better than I thought. The other girls had to step up, and they progressed quicker than expected.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
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Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished busines...
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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