"There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum."
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"Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it."
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"During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs."
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"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."
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"It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes."
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"There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat."
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"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."
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"Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love."
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"Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof."
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"Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism."
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"Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely."
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"I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat."
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"Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap."
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"Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal."
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"We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous."
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"One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses."
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"Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt."
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"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."
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"Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him."
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"Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental."
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