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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories… but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu. – Florence King

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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. – Florence King

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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. – Florence King

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On pillard brass shall tell their praise;
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may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. Its very selfish, but its understandable. – Mick Jagger

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