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"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."
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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."
"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."
"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."
"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."
"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."
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