The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
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