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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
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When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
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The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance…
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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds…
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A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off…
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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
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I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her…
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There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items…
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There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's…
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The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
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I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from…
— Anais Nin
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