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"She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the fun of stirring people up and setting them against each other. She dabbled in that too. She's the sort of woman who's never had a row with anyone in her life--but rows always happen where she is! She makes them happen. She's kind of female Iago. She must have drama. But she doesn't want to be involved herself. She's always outside pulling strings--looking on--enjoying it!"
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"Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes."
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Personal Development

"Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck."
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"The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become."
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"Who grins in official circumstances?"
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"Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice."
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"Mankind is one human family."
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"Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose."
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"We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not."
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"When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating."
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"Much effort, much prosperity."
Effort

"Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance."
Lifestyle

"I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."
Relationship

"In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?"
Friendship

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."
Being

"I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement."
Psychology

"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
Hope

"Cleverness is not wisdom."
Wisdom

"There is the sky, which is all men's together."
Man

"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."
Sociology
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