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She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.
The Group (1963)
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
The Group (1963)
Thin women are more sensual; scientific fact — the nerve ends are closer to the surface.
The Group (1963)
One of the big features of living alone was that you could talk to yourself all you wanted and address imaginary audiences, running the gamut of emotion.
The Group (1963)
[Y]ou have to live without love, learn not to need it, in order to live with it.
The Group (1963)
He would only come if she were unprepared. Or would he come only if she were prepared? With her lamp trimmed like the wise virgins? Christianity would tell her to buy food for two, but the pagans would say, 'Don't risk it.'
The Group (1963)
Her [Helena's] light, mildly aseptic irony was wasted on Norine, who was unaware of irony and humorous vocal shadings; she listened only to the overt content of what was said and drew her own blunt inferences.
The Group (1963)
All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it — in other men's words. Of course I envied you that too.
The Group (1963)
Polly saw the point. Would she wish not to have been born? Unhappy as she was, she could not say that. Even when she had wished to die, she had not wished never to have been born. Nobody alive could do that.
The Group (1963)
As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.
The Group (1963)
Extend your antennae, girls.
The Group (1963)