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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."
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"The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."

"My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day."

"Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions."

"It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague."

"A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."

"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."

"I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with."

"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome."

"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
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