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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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