There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.
When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.
If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.
Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.