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I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and women tell me thing...more

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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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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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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Watching her, I remembered a girl I'd known in school, a grind, Mildred Grossman. Mildred: with her moist hair and greasy spectacles, her strained fin...more

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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that...more

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Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars.

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Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.

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Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there ex...more