The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
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Women cannot always flow, and even when they do, they well up slowly, while men are quick as torrents - they are primed by nature to burst forth at different times... the twenty-minute gap, the abyss between the sexes.Stephen Vizinczey
To be jealous of a woman one doesn't love is the most ridiculous form of vanity, but Hardwick, surrounded by people whose livelihood depended on him, had no idea that he could be ridiculous.
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Watching him, she forgot to answer.
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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
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The dream of a crook is a man with a dream.
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