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" American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. "
American
Gone
In-Laws
" Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. "
Creativity
God
Guilt
" He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. "
Double
Real
Feminism
" I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. "
Own
Home
My Own
" In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. "
Moral
Bee
Etiquette
" Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. "
Good
Best
Now
" People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. "
American Dream
People
Dreams
" Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. "
Showing Up
Start
School
" The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. "
Women
American
Choose
" Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. "
Lost
Mind
Time
" To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. "
Achieve
Taste
Other
" True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. "
Memories
Nostalgia
True
" Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time. "
True
Time
Mind
" Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. "
Metaphors
Say
Who
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