Jean Stafford - Boston adventure (1944)

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A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Jean Stafford

Indeed, the sole criticism of him was that he prolonged beyond the point of decency, his look of nuptial rapture and the vagueness which rendered him, in conversation, slightly stupid.

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Alcohol flings back, almost illimitably, the boundaries of humor so that we can find uproarious things which our poor sober friends miss altogether. It is necessary, if the joke is really good and really should be shared, to repeat it time and again until finally it penetrates those solemn skulls.

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You'll never get to be an old lady if you don't take care of yourself.

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Whiskey and music, I reflected, especially when taken together, made time fly incredibly fast.

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