When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

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All would live long, but none would be old.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.