"My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether."

-- James Boswell

“There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”
“I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.”
“I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.”
“You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”
“Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.”
“I think if you meet the right person in life and you fall in love, that is a miracle. My husband saw me on the subway. That is a miracle!”

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“Sad stories make good books”
“My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.”

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