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"Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you."

"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."

"My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated."

"Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together."

"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
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"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."

"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."

"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."

"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
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