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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Great sex is a natural drug."

"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking."

"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."

"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."

"Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal."
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