“ Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and highminded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundanein the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bathshe had probably put herself in unnecessary danger. ”
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“ If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place. ”
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“ In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come. ”
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“ But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked. ”
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“ But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to dram of empires restored. No. His model for mastering his circumstances would be a different sort of captive altogether: an Anglican washed ashore. Like Robinson Crusoe stranded on the Isle of Despair, the count would maintain his resolve by committing to the business of practicalities. Having dispensed with dreams of quick discovery, the world’s Crusoes seek shelter and a source of fresh water; they teach themselves to make fire from flint; they study their island’s topography, it’s climate, its flora and fauna, all the while keeping their eyes trained for sails on the horizon and footprints in the sand. ”
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“ For wasn't it just a matter of time before we crossed each other's path? Despite all the hoopla, wasn't Manhattan just ten miles long and a mile or two wide? So in the days that followed, I kept an eye out, I looked for his figure on the street corners and in the coffee shops. I imagined coming home and having him emerge once more from the doorway across the street. But as the weeks turned into months, and the months into years, this sense of anticipation waned, and slowly but surely, I stopped expecting to see him in a crowd. ”
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“ For wasn't it just a matter of time before we crossed each other's path? Despite all the hoopla, wasn't Manhattan just ten miles long and a mile or two wide? So in the days that followed, I kept en eye out, I looked for his figure on the street corners and in the coffee shops. I imagined coming home and having him emerge once more from the doorway across the street. But as the weeks turned into months, and the months into years, this sense of anticipation waned, and slowly but surely, I stopped expecting to see him in a crowd. ”
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“ [...]education will give you a sense of the world's scope, of its wonders, of its many and varied ways of life. ”
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“ ...education will give you a sense of the world's scope, of its wonders, of its many and varied ways of life. ”
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“ [...]education will give you a sense of the world's scope, of its wonders, of its many and varied ways of life. ”
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“ ...education will give you a sense of the world's scope, of its wonders, of its many and varied ways of life. ”
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“ You're rather well read for a workingclass girl, she said with her back to me. Really? I've found that all my wellread friends are from the working class. Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty? No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment. Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment. Not in this house. ”
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“ You're rather well read for a workingclass girl, she said with her back to me. Really? I've found that all my wellread friends are from the working class. Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty? No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment. Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment. Not in this house. ”
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“ Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way. ”
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“ Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way. ”
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