You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

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Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

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Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

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The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

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If someone tells you he is going to make a ""realistic decision,"" you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

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