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"Call me easily amused, if you like, but I did like the opening line of this chapter, which was "How do you solve a problem like Korea?"" May 13, 2026 02:25PM

 
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“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
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