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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
In violence, we forget who we are.
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of... →
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision,' you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must... →
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away... →
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