In memory everything seems to happen to music.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

No girl can do worse than put herself at the mercy of a handsome appearance!

People are not so dreadful when you know them.

I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look into her eyes. Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be!

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