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“As a matter of fact it wouldn’t be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I’d trust most women with the truth about their husbands. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.”
― Murder in Mesopotamia
― Murder in Mesopotamia
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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