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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.


Anatole Broyard

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HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the b...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn ...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD