Shana Alexander Quotes
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A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
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As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.
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Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.
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Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.
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Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
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At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
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Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
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Good drama should sandpaper the mind.
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
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Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.
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Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.
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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
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We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.
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Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
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The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.