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Minor Characters (1983)
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Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.
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Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all — as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.
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I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.
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If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.
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I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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September 27, 1935
(age 89)
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