True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

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