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"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
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"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."

"The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not."

"Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information? Bones asked, getting back to the subject. 'You to take me, she replied at once. 'Not gonna happen! I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That's when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand."

"Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain cloistered and ostentatiously exclusionary, envy may show its pernicious power, cause wounding harms and unchain emotional twisters. ['Why has Shé got stars in the sky?']"

"Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about."
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"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."

"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."

"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."

"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."
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