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• In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without a scandal.
  BAGEHOT...
• Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we had.
  I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me....
• Asking me, asking me: do you know what love is? Sure, I know. A boy loves his dog.
• FIGHTING WORDS Say my love is easy had, Say I'm bitten raw with pride, Say I am too often sad -- Still behold me at your side.
  Say I'm neither brave nor young, Say I woo and coddle care, Say the devil touched my tongue -- Still you have my heart to wear....
• Say my love is easy had, Say I'm bitten raw with pride, Say I am too often sad -- Still behold me at your side.
  Say I'm neither brave nor young, Say I woo and coddle care, Say the devil touched my tongue, Still you have my heart to wear....
• I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things.
  I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more....
• My soul is crushed, my spirit sore I do not like me anymore, I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse, I ponder on the narrow house I shudder at the thought of men I'm due to fall in love again.
  -- Dorothy Parker, "Enough Rope...