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Sex and Rage

by Eve Babitz

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Mar 28, 2026 11:33AM

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”
― John Berger

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“Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang”
― James Patterson

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“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love...”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: fear, love, relationship

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