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"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
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"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."
"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
"It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all."
"Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead."
"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
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"The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing."
"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."
"You stop talking about things when you've worked them out. You're no longer an observer but a participant. You're too busy for this bullshit."
"Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn't need all of us to produce more babies."
"In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library."
"The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it."
"A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself."
"Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind."
"And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?"
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