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Righteousness has no place in literature. Of course the keen observer of her culture will feel deeply about the oppression she sees around her, the inhumanity of man to man, of man to woman, but her vision of it must be essentially personal, not abstractly political.

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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Fear of Flying (1973)

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