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"New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American."
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"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."
"Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored."
"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing."
"Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier."
"And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time."
"He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting. --Solar."
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"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."
"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."
"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."
"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."
"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution."
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