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"Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?"
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"Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one."

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"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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