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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another. ↗

— Jane Porter

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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#everything #i #like #maybe #nothing

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee. ↗

— Jorge Posada

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Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. ↗

— Emily Post

#ethics #etiquette #everything #fork #honor

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

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