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Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship.

— Susan Howatch The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

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'He wasn't just being selfish, he was being realistic. Marriage would have been very difficult if not downright impossible.'

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Kester wrote about people and since human nature doesn't change his observations hadn't dated.

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'Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.'

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Recovering from an ill-starred romance is, after all, to anyone of sufficient will-power and self-respect, purely an attitude of mind.

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Man cannot live on charm alone, and an ambitious man cannot live on anything less than wealth, good social connections and substantial political influence.

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