“Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.”
― The Cocktail Party
Is due to people who want to feel important.”
― The Cocktail Party
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
― The Cocktail Party
― The Cocktail Party
“I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.”
― The Cocktail Party
― The Cocktail Party
“American women are characteristically frigid and materialistic. The man who 'has his way' with an American girl is under a material obligation to her. The woman has granted a material favour. In cases of divorce American law overwhelmingly favours the woman. American women will divorce readily enough when they see a better bargain. It is frequently the case in America that a woman will be married to one man but already 'engaged' to a future husband, the man she plans to marry after a profitable divorce.”
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“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.”
― The Cocktail Party
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.”
― The Cocktail Party
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