Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
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I just read the new novel by Jay McInerney, who is a friend of mine. And I did so with great apprehension, because it takes place around the time of those attacks. But I thought he handled it beautifully, since he comes at it from a bit of a side angle.Julian Barnes
It's the great drama, the great unknowable of most of our lives, ... We don't all paddle up the Amazon in a canoe and get shot at, but we do the equivalent of that (in our relationships).
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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
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You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyesslowly,you agreed with their opinion of you.
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People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves
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