We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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Anger is really disappointed hope

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed

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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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