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"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."
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"It's not what we do once-it's what we do once a day, day in and day out, every day that brings lasting change into our lives."

"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."

"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
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"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."


"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."


"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."


"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
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