Jean Stafford - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (1969)

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She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.

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There were two objects of conversation; one was the food they were eating and the other was the food they had eaten at other times.

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Nothing can more totally subdue the passions than familial piety.

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Falling in love is not an abrupt plunge; it is a gradual descent, seldom in a straight line, rather like the floating downward of a parachute. And the expression is imperfect because while one may fall one also levitates.

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Mrs. Fowler hated men so passionately that no one could dream why she married so many of them.

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She was not sure whether she had had a dream just now or whether there was something she had meant to remember or to think about that was troubling her aged mind like a rat in a wall.

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Generations should not be mingled for daily fare, she thought; they are really contemptuous of one another, and the strong individuals, whether they belong to the older or the younger, impose on the meek their creeds and opinions, and, if they are strong enough, brook no dissent.

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