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" Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases. "

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" I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us. "

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" Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage. "

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" I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done. "

" As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another. "

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" I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing. "

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" Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just. "

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" A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems. "

" Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. "

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" Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty. More concerned with what is put than how it is put, she also understood that you only say anything at all when you say it well. "

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" The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented being forced to recite the Apostle's Creed, mumbling, 'I believe... ' when I didn't. "

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" A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum. "