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“She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.”
― The Custom of the Country
― The Custom of the Country
“EL TEDIO Sacrificarse a sus pasiones, puede pasar: ¡pero sacrificarse a pasiones que no se sienten! ¡Oh triste siglo XIX! GIRODET.”
― Rojo y Negro
― Rojo y Negro
“Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.”
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“Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)”
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“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really wanted to do? Taking a hopelessly dull job to prove he could be as responsible as any other family man, moving to an overpriced, genteel apartment to prove his mature belief in the fundamentals of orderliness and good health, having another child to prove that the first one hadn’t been a mistake, buying a house in the country because that was the next logical step and he had to prove himself capable of taking it. Proving, proving; and for no other reason than that he was married to a woman who had somehow managed to put him forever on the defensive, who loved him when he was nice, who lived according to what she happened to feel like doing and who might at any time—this was the hell of it—who might at any time of day or night just happen to feel like leaving him.
It was as ludicrous and as simple as that.”
― Revolutionary Road
It was as ludicrous and as simple as that.”
― Revolutionary Road
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