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"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."
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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."
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"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."
"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."
"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
"If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books."
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"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed."
"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
"There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger."
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