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• Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
• A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
• Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise…
• In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention…
• A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and…
• Great writers are the saints for the godless.
• Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends…
• Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
• The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
• What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

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