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1 " The very rich are no different; they just have more money. The real difference in this world is not between the rich and the poor but between those who create and those incapable of creation. "
― Susan Howatch , Sins of the Fathers
2 " Morality’s like mink,” I said. “It’s great if you can afford it. "
3 " How could parents endure to labour for years, to sacrifice themselves so that their children should have nothing but the best, and to discover in the end that it had all been for so little, for a quick visit on national holidays and a few hours spent in front of the television set in a silence neither side knew how to break? "
4 " I’ve now reached the point where I don’t hate anyone. Hatred makes things worse. Hatred stops one coming to terms with all the horror and grief. And one must come to terms with it. Somehow. "
5 " We have the three As instead: allies, aides and acquaintances. Or in other words: those we barter with, those we buy and those we acknowledge because it suits us to do so "
6 " If one really stopped to think about the insane way the universe is arranged one would go mad in no time, so now and then it’s good to laugh, it’s therapeutic, it dilutes the pain "
7 " Hypocrisy saves one’s sanity. It’s the shield you hide behind when the truth is too terrible to face "
8 " Fact number two: all women basically want to be wives and mothers—’ ‘No, honey, they don’t. Sorry, but they just don’t. My fifty per cent of the human race isn’t a bunch of identical plastic dolls. We’re human beings and we’re all different and – incredible though this may seem to you – we don’t all want the same thing "
9 " You’re all cut off and sewn up "
10 " Of all the great empires the world has known, ours will be the shortest. Two hundred years of chasing the Godalmighty Dollar, and what do we produce? The A-Bomb and I Love Lucy. "
11 " until society changed, men’s attitudes to women wouldn’t change "
12 " We always glamorize what we don’t have "
13 " I’d rather be a first-rate failure than a second-rate success. "