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"In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took alot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose."
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"Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.'Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness."
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"What's broken is broken-and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over."
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