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“Yes, another Great Romance would be the death of me. One gets the same feeling, or near enough, on four Manhattans if they’re good; and that failing, one can see what five will do. The hangover from Manhattan’s shorter’n that from Romances. . . .”
― Ex-Wife
― Ex-Wife
“Ex-wife Grade A, I was. Sex-appeal, dresses well, looks young, dances lightly, can make wisecracks, and is self-supporting. Lets a man talk. Does not gold-dig, except for another round of li- queurs after dinner. Never passes out or gets raucous, or gets sick. Not susceptible to the “I want you, I want you, I want you” attitude, but likely to succumb to “pity me, my life is lonely”— once with any man.”
― Ex-Wife
― Ex-Wife
“I hate him; I’m never going to see him again. I’m going to kiss so many other men I shan’t remember what he was like. He says I’m a slut; I’ll be a slut, but never with him, again. Lucia, why did he do this to me?”
― Ex-Wife
― Ex-Wife
“Tell me some philosophy that’s not adolescent. Self- expression—the new freedom for women-Freud, that Great Excuse?”
“There is progress, though, Lucia. Myself, I’ve progressed, in taste, from Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway.”
“How much progress is that?”
“A damn long distance on the road to bigger and broader vocabularies.”
― Ex-Wife
“There is progress, though, Lucia. Myself, I’ve progressed, in taste, from Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway.”
“How much progress is that?”
“A damn long distance on the road to bigger and broader vocabularies.”
― Ex-Wife
“I may not be pure, but thank heaven I look immaculate.”
― Ex-Wife
― Ex-Wife
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