"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.“
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"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
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"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
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