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They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself...
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We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
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The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
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It was the sort of voice you'd like to read you a story before you went to sleep.
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I think if you're a woman, you are naturally a feminist. Unless you're hiding something.
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If she didn't soon have a book in her hands, if she couldn't soon read a book, she'd die.
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It is not so much true that all the world loves a lover as that a lover loves all the world.
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Americans... are a nation of salesmen just as the English are a nation of small shopkeepers.
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I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
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I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
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Mark wasn't interested in others and their affairs. His favourite word was 'I,' with 'me' a close second.
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We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?
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These days I'm quite content, you know, with everything. I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.
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We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
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There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
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Grief can sometimes only be expressed in platitudes. We are original in our happy moments. Sorrow has only one voice, one cry.
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She opened the door to them carefully, grudgingly, as if expecting to see gypsies or a brush salesman from a disreputable firm.
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It's living — a broad spectrum of living — that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
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She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.
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It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.
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Stanley never answered a doorbell naturally and innocently as other people do. He always debated whether it was wise to answer it at all.
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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
February 17, 1930
Died:
May 2, 2015
(aged 85)
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