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Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

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