Rona Jaffe Quotes

#1. Boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

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#2. She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.

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#3. But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special

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#4. It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all

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#5. To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation.

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#6. It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy

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#7. The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm

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#8. But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing.

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#9. A blond in a red dress can do without introductions
but not without a bodyguard.

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#10. You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.

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#11. What are this blind dates?' he asked curiously .
'An old American institution of mismating.

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#12. ...they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content.

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#13. Girls always think, "I'm going to be the exception," Caroline thought; it's a weakness of the species, like a collie's tiny brain.

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#14. It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.

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