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It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable…
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You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then…
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He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate…
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It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and…
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If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
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Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.
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Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all…
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Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?
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I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.
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He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.
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He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
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God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we…
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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it…
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A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
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The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that…
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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.
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If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood…
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I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.
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