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“Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.”
“Through college she had been a feministbasically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.”
“The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.”
“Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.”
“It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.”
“What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope...”
“This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!”
“Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isnt bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionab...”
“How can it be described? How can any of it be described? The trip and the story of the trip are always two different things. The narrator is the one who has stayed home, but then, afterward, presse...”
“I would be a genius now, Quilty has said three times already, if only Id memorized Shakespeare instead of Lulu. If only, says Mack. Mack himself would be a genius now if only he had been born a com...”
