Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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

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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

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