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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 Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."
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"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
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"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words."
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"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."
"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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