Lisa Alther - Kinflicks (1976)

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Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects had to be undone.

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Once again she decided not to decide. She preferred being compelled into her decisions.

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The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

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One day, maybe she'd stick around to explore her own capacity for the dark, but at the moment all she wanted was a cheeseburger.

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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

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I wrote for 12 years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

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Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

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Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

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I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic, I announced, resolutely parroting Miss Head.

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She had learnt... that it was impossible to discuss issues civilly with a person who insisted on referring to himself as 'we'.

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If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

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A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

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Their civil discussions weren't interesting, and their interesting discussions weren't civil.

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One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

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The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

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