If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed

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Conflict is the soul of literature.

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