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“ Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing. ”

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This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

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She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

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A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

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