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I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.
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That's right," Karen said, clutching the bag to her chest and looking like Gollum with the Ring. "It's only stuff."
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And not actually the great sacrifice that I'm making
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you're an
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You don't have to sleep with someone, you can be unfaithful with your emotions.
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marriage
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Why would we 'swing' when we had praying?
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I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.
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It's upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it's nearly as bad when the bloke that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns out to be uncomplicated and nice.
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Once the door to one disaster had opened, the possibilities for catastrophe seemed open-ended and I felt I'd no choice but to go along with my life as it unraveled.
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The stars are always there, even in the daylight. Sometimes we just can't see them.
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I've brought sandwiches." He indicated a brown paper bag. "Let's play a game." Startled, we looked each other in the eye. We both swallowed hard. I cleared my throat and asked, "What's the game?" "If I've managed to bring your favorite sandwich, you meet me again tomorrow." "I like cheese," I said cautiously. I was afraid of him producing turkey and cranberry, my most hated. "What kind of cheese?" he asked. "Any kind." "Go on. Be specific."..
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Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away.
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Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?
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Hamstrung as I am with shortness and a tendency to roundness, which I need to watch like a hawk, I certainly don't look the part.
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Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person. If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks.
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Guilt is a self-indulgence.
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as you know, here at Randolph Media we reward hard work." Lisa twinkled prettily at the patent lie. Like many companies in the Western world, Randolph Media rewarded hard work with poor pay, increasing workloads, demotions and on-a-second's redundancies."
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But, as we all know, the first law of shopping says that when you're urgently looking for something specific, you've no hope of finding it.
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paths would have already crossed
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When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it bas gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away?
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Perhaps the sadness of a divorce doesn't actually disappear, she realized. Instead you have to incorporate it, learn to coexist with it
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No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.
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fling
cheat
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worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.
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As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. 'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract
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and it mightn't be
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genuinely is
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You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.
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Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?
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La corrente della vita mi spingeva in avanti, ma io resistevo. Preferivo il passato, non ancora convinta che con Shay fosse davvero finita. Quando lo avevo salutato sul traghetto non sapevo che sarebbero trascorsi quindici anni prima di rivederlo.
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I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.
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It's a curse being dad's 'clever' child. He reads books the way other people take cold showers - they're good for you, but you're not expected to enjoy them.
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He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
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Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.
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He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.
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I employ this thing I called The Shovel List.
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If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.
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As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.
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fling
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If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
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fling
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He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Black pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
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20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society.
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You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won't be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out.
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After a pause he says, 'Trust you to bring everything back to sweets.' He is a fine one to talk, him and his birds.
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Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?
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When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away?
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