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But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by… — Anne Ortlund Copy Share Image
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“My mouth went dry, my heart clattered. "Nick, don't leave. Don't go," I said unevenly. "Look, it's not that I'm not, you… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I… — Maye Musk Copy Share Image
I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
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“[A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
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