- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
- Nov 07, 2020
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
- Nov 07, 2020
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
- Hare
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020