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"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
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"We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all."
"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."
"In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless."
"If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'."
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."
"When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one's socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ['Another empty room']"
"If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away."
"She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her."
"If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated."
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"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."
"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."
"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."
"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
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