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" A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. "

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" Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. "

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" Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. "

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" Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. "

" Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. "

" The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. "

" Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. "

" The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. "

" What a joy it is to dance and sing! "

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" In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. "

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" Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. "