"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."
-Elizabeth Bowen
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"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
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"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out."
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible."
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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."
-Pete Fountain
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"I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did."
-Nas
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"That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."
-J. M. Barrie
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"On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account."
-Henry Lawson
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"Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't."
-Jonathan Raban
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"When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact."
-Jeff Ross
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