Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

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I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

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