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"This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."
"A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles."
"I cannot do anything fake; that is why even when I sleep with a prostitute, she falls in love with me."
"Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind."
"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."
"This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump."
"On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone."
"Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility."
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"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"
"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."
"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."
"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
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