"It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine."

-- Angela Carter

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“It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.”
“Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.”
“If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.”
“People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.”
“When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.”
“Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.”
“Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.”
“If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that.”

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