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I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another level, does it really matter if anybody is free of any...more

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I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become well enough acquainted with la...more

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The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations.

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Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.

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A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

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The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable o...more

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But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority on her...more

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Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if ...more

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Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second...more