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Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us

Anything you like; anything I like… No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us
– Jean Rhys

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  2. . . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond. – Danielle Monsch
  3. We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress. – Sam Harris
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  6. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
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  9. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. – Jean Rhys
  10. The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man. – Jean Rhys
  11. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only – to be left alone. – Jean Rhys
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  14. What I see is nothing – I want what it hides – that is not nothing. – Jean Rhys
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  17. All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. – Margaret Atwood
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  19. Never allow anyone embarrass you without your consent. – Maggy Mae
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  28. Commercial comedy’s often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who’s naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous. – David Foster Wallace
  29. I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace
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  31. The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen E Ambrose
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