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"Being divorced does not necessarily make one's advice on marriage useless - or useful."
"Divorce is an expensive punishment love gets when it fails."
"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
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"Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it."
"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."
"The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires."
"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."
"To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit."
"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken."
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