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We cannot guess the outcome of our actions ... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own ... women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
One sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.
Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
Success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
Maturity ... is letting things happen.
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.
