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After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak. - [Women] All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. - [Fantasy] Every kind of writing is hypocritical. - [Writing] I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. - [Eyes] Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. - [Laughter] No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. - [Work] Nobody ever died of laughter. - [Laughter] Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. - [Hatred] Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. - [Mediocrity] Only the insane take themselves seriously. - [Insanity] People are either born hosts or born guests. - [Visiting] People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. - [Dreams] The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end. - [Envy] The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. - [Past] To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. - [Destruction] That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannels, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line. - Zuleika Dobson [Books (First Lines)]
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