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The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.
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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it.
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made man feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.
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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
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It was getting rather alarming. I realised one day that in twenty four hours I had slept with three different men. And one morning I was in bed with somebody while over his head I talked on the telephone with somebody else…I did not feel promiscuous. Maybe no-one does. And maybe more girls sleep with more men than you would ever think to look at them.
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Most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
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Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.
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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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Born:
June 21, 1912
Died:
October 25, 1989
(aged 77)
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