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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: July 15th, 1919

Died: February 8th, 1999

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