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21 " When things have gone wrong it is no consolation to hear that your friends expected it all along and could have told you so if they hadn't been so polite. "
― Alison Lurie , Foreign Affairs
22 " I'll tell you the truth,don't think I'm lying:I've to run backwardsto keep from flying. "
23 " Sticks and stones may break my bones;But names will never hurt meWhen I die, then you'll cryfor the names you called me. "
24 " Sometimes Vinnie wonders why any woman ever gets into bed with any man. To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly risky business. The odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York state lottery. He could hurt you; he could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill-concealed, embarrassed distaste. He could turn out to be awkward, selfish, inept—even totally incompetent. He could have some peculiar sexual hangup: a fixation on your underclothes to the exclusion of you, for instance, or on one sexual variation to the exclusion of all else. The risks are so high that really no woman in her right mind would take such a chance—except that when you do take such a chance you’re usually not in your right mind. And if you win, just as with the state lottery (which Vinnie also plays occasionally) the prize is so tremendous. "
25 " It was lucky for Fred that he had already published two solid articles and was in the eighteenth century, where good candidates are scarce. Fred "
26 " and said so. Their initial impressions of each other were "
27 " Not for the first time, he wonders why it is that married couples feel perfectly free to analyze the affairs of their unmarried friends; whereas if he were to make some comment on Joe and Debby’s relationship they would be righteously pissed-off. "
28 " Now you have more knowledge of yourself and the world; you are equipped to make choices, but there are none left to make. "
― Alison Lurie , The War Between the Tates
29 " And if she is attacked and murdered "
30 " Now you have more knowledge of yourself and the world; you are equipped to make choices, but there are none left to make "
