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“So what’s the secret to staying together?” I asked her. “Be nice?” she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a secret to losing weight is to eat less. Be nice. Don’t leave. That’s all.
Ada Calhoun • Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
The nice thing about Philadelphia is that no one has moved there to find the good life for over two hundred years.
Sarah Vowell • The Partly Cloudy Patriot
He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
MEN, MAN, MANLY, MANHOOD,
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
She was smarter than him and they both knew it. It wasn’t just school—Lane Dean was in accounting and business and did all right, he was hanging in there. She was a year older, she was twenty, but it was also more—she had always seemed to Lane to be on good terms with her life in a way age could not account for. His mother had put it that she knew
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
The dynamics of the connection between Faye Goddard and Julie Smith tend, those around them find, to resist clear articulation.