The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.Anatole Broyard
She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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